Mitochondrial control region sequences from northern Greece and Greek Cypriots

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 87-89

  Irwin, Jodi ^a   Saunier, Jessica ^a   Strouss, Katharine ^a   Paintner, Carla ^a   Diegoli, Toni ^a   Sturk, Kimberly ^a   Kovatsi, Leda ^b   Brandstätter, Anita ^c   Cariolou, Marios A ^d   Parson, Walther ^c   Parsons, Thomas J ^a,e  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d CYPRUS INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND GENETICS   (Cyprus)

^e International Commission on Missing Persons   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Author keywords

Cyprus; Greece; Haplogroups; mtDNA; Population data

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GREECE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 37249078216     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-007-0173-7     Document Type: Article

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