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Utility of haplogroup determination for forensic mtDNA analysis in the Japanese population.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Sept 2007
Asari Masaru, Umetsu Kazuo, Adachi Noboru, Azumi Jun-ichi, Shimizu Keiko, Shiono Hiroshi
Abstract excerpt
Sequence analysis of the hypervariable regions (HVRs) of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are routinely performed in forensic casework, however, there are still issues to be resolved, such as the existence of multiple errors in published databases or the limitations of individual discrimination in certain populations. Here, we analyzed the coding region of mtDNA in detail by examining 36 haplogroup (HG)-defining single...
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