Article
Variability of the human mitochondrial DNA control region sequences in the Lithuanian population.
Journal of applied genetics - 1 Jan 2002
Kasperaviciūte Dalia, Kucinskas Vaidutis
Abstract excerpt
The Lithuanians and Latvians are the only two Baltic cultures that survived until today. Since the Neolithic period the native inhabitants of the present-day Lithuanian territory have not been replaced by any other ethnic group. Therefore the genetic characterization of the present-day Lithuanians may shed some light on the early history of the Balts. We have analysed 120 DNA samples from two Lithuanian...
Topics
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genetic Variation
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Lithuania
- Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
