Utility of haplogroup determination for forensic mtDNA analysis in the Japanese population

Legal Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 237-240

  Asari, Masaru ^a   Umetsu, Kazuo ^b   Adachi, Noboru ^c   Azumi, Jun ichi ^a   Shimizu, Keiko ^a   Shiono, Hiroshi ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrimination power; Forensic utility; Haplogroup; Hypervariable regions; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPANESE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 34447646560     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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