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Variability of mitochondrial DNA in a population sample from Iceland.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Mar 2003
Wittig Holger, Aschenbrenner Andrea, Poetsch Micaela, Krause Dieter, Lignitz Eberhard
Abstract excerpt
Over the past decade investigations of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have considerably contributed to our knowledge about human evolution and migration. The genome of the Icelandic population is of special interest since Iceland has been genetically isolated for centuries. The sequence of the hypervariable regions HVS-I and HVS-II of the mtDNA control region was generated for 100 Icelandic individuals. A total...
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