Mitochondrial DNA control region variation in a Kuwaiti population sample

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Scheible, Melissa ^a   Alenizi, Mohammad ^b   Sturk Andreaggi, Kimberly ^a   Coble, Michael D ^a,c   Ismael, Samar ^b   Irwin, Jodi A ^a  

^a ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b General Department of Criminal Evidence   (Kuwait)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Control region; Kuwait; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IRAQ; KUWAIT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79957635897     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. M. Alenizi, W. Goodwin, S. Ismael, S. Hadi, STR data for the AmpFlSTR® Identifiler® loci in Kuwaiti population, Legal Med. 10 (2008) 321-325.
2. Automated DNA IQ™ System Protocol for the Beckman Coulter Biomek® 3000 Technical Manual, Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, 2009.
3. J. Irwin, J. Saunier, K. Strouss, K. Sturk, T. Diegoli, R. Just, M. Coble, W. Parson, T. Parsons, Development and expansion of high quality control region databases to improve forensic mtDNA evidence interpretation, Forensic Sci. Int. Genet. 1 (2) (2007) 154-157.
4. S. Anderson, A.T. Bankier, B.G. Barrell, M.H. de Bruijn, A.R. Coulson, J. Drouin, I.C. Eperon, D.P. Nierlich, B.A. Roe, F. Sanger, P.H. Schreier, A.J. Smith, R. Staden, I.G. Young, Sequence and organization of the human mitochondrial genome, Nature 290 (1981) 457-465. (Pubitemid 11159074)
5. R.M. Andrews, I. Kubacka, P.F. Chinnery, R.N. Lightowlers, D.M. Turnbull, N. Howell, Reanalysis and revision of the Cambridge reference sequence for human mitochondrial DNA, Nat. Genet. 23 (1999) 147.
6. H.-J. Bandelt, W. Parson, Consistent treatment of length variants in the human mtDNA control region: a reappraisal, Int. J. Legal Med. 122 (1) (2008) 11-21.
7. M. van Oven, M. Kayser, Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation, Hum. Mutat. 30(2) (2009) E386-E394, http://www.phylotree.org, doi:10.1002/humu.20921.
8. A. Brandstätter, T. Sänger, S. Lutz-Bonengel, W. Parson, E. Beraud-Colomb, B. Wen, Q.-P. Kong, C. Bravi, H.J. Bandelt, Phantom mutation hotspots in human mitochondrial DNA, Electrophoresis 26 (2005) 3414-3429. (Pubitemid 41417587)
9. H.-J. Bandelt, L. Quintana-Murci, A. Salas, V. Macaulay, The fingerprint of phantom mutations in mitochondrial DNA data, Am. J. Hum. Genet 71 (2002) 1150-1160.
10. Á. Carracedo, J. Butler, L. Gusmão, W. Parson, L. Roewer, P. Schneider, Publication of population data for forensic purposes, Forensic Sci. Int. Genet. 4 (3) (2010) 145-147.
11. N. Al-Zahery, O. Semino, G. Benuzzi, C. Magri, G. Passarino, A. Torroni, A.S. Santachiara-Benerecetti, Y-chromosome and mtDNA polymorphisms in Iraq, a crossroad of the early human dispersal and of post-Neolithic migrations, Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 28 (2003) 458-472.
12. K. Abu-Amero, J. Larruga, V. Cabrera, A. González, Mitochondrial DNA structure in the Arabian Peninsula,BMC Evol. Biol. 8(45) (2008) doi:10.1186/1471-2148rr8-45.
13. M. Richards, C. Rengo, F. Cruciani, F. Gratrix, J.F. Wilson, R. Scozzari, V. Macaulay, A. Torroni, Extensive female-mediated gene flow from sub-Saharan Africa into near eastern Arab populations, Am. J. Hum. Genet. 72 (2003) 1058-1064. (Pubitemid 36403327)
14. V. Černý, C.J. Mulligan, V. Fernandes, N.M. Silva, F. Alshamali, A. Non, N. Harich, L. Cherni, A.B. El Gaaied, A. Al-Meeri, L. Pereira, Internal diversification of mitochondrial haplogroup R0a reveals post-last glacial maximum demographic expansions in South Arabia, Mol. Biol. Evol. (2010).
15. K.K. Abu-Amero, A.M. Gonzalez, J.M. Larruga, T.M. Bosley, V.M. Cabrera, Eurasian and African mitochondrial DNA influences in the Saudi Arabian population, BMC Evol. Biol. 7 (2007) 32.
16. P. Lincoln, A. Carracedo, Publication of population data of human polymorphisms, Forensic Sci. Int. 110 (2000) 3-5.