Frequency and pattern of heteroplasmy in the control region of human mitochondrial DNA

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-200

  Santos, Cristina ^a,b   Sierra, Blanca ^a   Álvarez, Luis ^a   Ramos, Amanda ^a   Fernández, Elisabet ^a   Nogués, Ramón ^a   Aluja, Maria Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Blood; Buccal cells; Length heteroplasmy; mtDNA; Point heteroplasmy

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEEK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SCREENING; FORENSIC SCIENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION; SPAIN;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS;

EID: 50249097202     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00239-008-9138-9     Document Type: Article

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