Mitochondrial D-loop (CA) n repeat length heteroplasmy: Frequency in a German population sample and inheritance studies in two pedigrees

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 207-213

  Szibor, Reinhard ^a   Plate, Ines ^a   Heinrich, Marielle ^b   Michael, Mathias ^c   Schöning, Rüdiger ^a   Wittig, Holger ^a   Lutz Bonengel, Sabine ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

(CA) dinucleotide repeat; Homopolymeric tract; Inheritance studies; Length heteroplasmy; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GERMANY; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 34249864761     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-006-0096-8     Document Type: Article

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