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Analysis of heteroplasmy in hypervariable region II of mitochondrial DNA in maternally related individuals.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 May 2005
Lo Mei-Chen, Lee Horng-Mo, Lin Ming-Wei, Tzen Chin-Yuan
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA sequences have been widely employed for identity investigation. However, the presence of a heteroplasmic site may complicate sequence analysis for forensic purposes when two samples are compared. To study this potential problem, we analyzed the hypervariable region of the displacement loop in five maternally related individuals, that is, grandmother, mother, one son, and two daughters. The...
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