DNA Commission of the International Society for Forensic Genetics: Revised and extended guidelines for mitochondrial DNA typing

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2014, Pages 134-142

  Parson, W ^a,b   Gusmao L ^c,d   Hares, D R ^e   Irwin, J A ^e   Mayr, W R ^f   Morling, N ^g   Pokorak, E ^e   Prinz, M ^h   Salas, A ⁱ   Schneider, P M ^j   Parsons, T J ^k  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e FBI LABORATORY   (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^h JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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

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Author keywords

Alignment; Database searches; Haplogroups; Heteroplasmy; Phylogeny; Quasi median networks

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE DELETION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; GENETICS; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; LABORATORY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GENE INSERTION; HAPLOGROUP; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; PHYLOGENY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC;

EID: 84907343169     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.07.010     Document Type: Article

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