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Diversity and heterogeneity in mitochondrial DNA of North American populations.
Journal of forensic sciences - 1 Jan 2001
Melton T, Clifford S, Kayser M, Nasidze I, Batzer M, Stoneking M
Abstract excerpt
Variation in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region as detected by sequence-specific oligonucleotide (SSO) probes is described for 2282 individuals from African-American, European-American, and Hispanic subpopulations from five broadly defined regions of North America (Northeast, Southeast, Central, Northwest, Southwest). Population diversity estimates were uniformly high for all subpopulations and for each...
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