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Molecular analysis of mitochondrial hypervariable region 1 in 394 Japanese individuals.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Apr 2009
Kato Hideaki, Maeno Yoshitaka, Ohira Hiroshi, Yamada Yoshihiro, Nagao Masataka
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a powerful tool for forensic casework when the resource is highly putrefied or very limited. It is important that mtDNA sequence databases continue to be generated and published, to extend mtDNA typing capability to additional populations and to increase the size of existing databases. The aim of this study was to analyze hypervariable region 1 (HV1) of mtDNA and establish a new...
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