Mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy in the emerging field of massively parallel sequencing

Forensic Science International: Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-139

  Just, Rebecca S ^a,b   Irwin, Jodi A ^c   Parson, Walther ^d,e  

^a Armed Forces Medical Examiner System   (United States)

^b American Registry of Pathology   (United States)

^c FBI LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Errors; Heteroplasmy; Massively parallel sequencing; mtDNA; mtGenome

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; MASSIVELY PARALLEL SEQUENCING; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL HAPLOGROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN GENOME; MITOCHONDRION; PROCEDURES;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84939573239     PISSN: 18724973     EISSN: 18780326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2015.05.003     Document Type: Article

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