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Recent progress in mitochondrial DNA analysis.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jul 2005
Umetsu Kazuo, Yuasa Isao
Abstract excerpt
In this review, we describe the current state of knowledge of mitochondrial genetics of East Asian populations and its application to forensic science. Recent advances in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) phylogeny have identified haplogroup-specific single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and the control region motifs of haplogroups. By analyzing haplogroup-specific SNPs, we can rapidly and accurately connect the mtDNA...
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