Amerindian mitochondrial DNA haplogroups predominate in the population of Argentina: Towards a first nationwide forensic mitochondrial DNA sequence database

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 263-268

  Bobillo, Maria Cecilia ^a   Zimmermann, Bettina ^b   Sala, Andrea ^a   Huber, Gabriela ^b   Röck, Alexander ^c   Bandelt, Hans Jürgen ^d   Corach, Daniel ^a   Parson, Walther ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coding region; Control region; Forensics; mtDNA population data; Native America

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ARGENTINA; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77954533802     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-009-0366-3     Document Type: Article

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