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Polymorphisms of mtDNA control region in Tunisian and Moroccan populations: an enrichment of forensic mtDNA databases with Northern Africa data.
Forensic science international. Genetics - 1 Jun 2009
Turchi Chiara, Buscemi Loredana, Giacchino Erika, Onofri Valerio, Fendt Liane, Parson Walther, Tagliabracci Adriano
Abstract excerpt
Current forensic mitochondrial (mt)DNA databases are limited in representative population data of African origin. We investigated HVS-I/HVS-II sequences of 120 Tunisian and Moroccan healthy male donors applying stringent quality criteria to assure high quality of the data and phylogenetic alignment and notation of the sequences. Among 64 Tunisians, 56 different haplotypes were observed and the most common...
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