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Phylogeographic differentiation of mitochondrial DNA in Han Chinese.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Mar 2002
Yao Yong-Gang, Kong Qing-Peng, Bandelt Hans-Jürgen, Kivisild Toomas, Zhang Ya-Ping
Abstract excerpt
To characterize the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation in Han Chinese from several provinces of China, we have sequenced the two hypervariable segments of the control region and the segment spanning nucleotide positions 10171-10659 of the coding region, and we have identified a number of specific coding-region mutations by direct sequencing or restriction-fragment-length-polymorphism tests. This allows us to...
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