Article
Branching pattern in the evolutionary tree for human mitochondrial DNA.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Mar 1991
Di Rienzo A, Wilson A C
Abstract excerpt
Eighty-eight types of mitochondrial (mt) DNA were found by sequencing the most variable part of the control region from 117 Caucasians. In the tree relating those types, most of the branching events occur about two-thirds of the way from the root of the tree to the tips of the branches. Moreover, the distribution of sequence differences between all possible pairs of individuals is approximately Poisson. Other...
Topics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Biological Evolution
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Hominidae
- Humans
- Italy
- Middle East
- Molecular Sequence Data