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Recommendations for consistent treatment of length variants in the human mitochondrial DNA control region.
Forensic science international - 10 Sept 2002
Wilson Mark R, Allard Marc W, Monson Keith, Miller Kevin W P, Budowle Bruce
Abstract excerpt
Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis is a valuable forensic tool, useful in cases where the amount of extracted DNA is low or highly degraded. Population databases are used to determine the relative rarity of a particular profile obtained in a forensic case. Rather than full DNA sequence information, sequence profiles are compared to a reference sequence, and the differences from the reference are recorded in...
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