Individual human hair mitochondrial DNA control region heteroplasmy proportions in mothers and children.

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Due to maternal inheritance, lack of recombination and a high polymorphic density, the mtDNA control region hypervariable (HV) regions are well suited for forensic identification using a maternal relative as the known sample. This analysis can be performed in hair, however, heteroplasmy in this tissue is not rare and can result in an apparent sequence mismatch that complicates this application. There is little...

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