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Segregation of point mutation heteroplasmy in the control region of dog mtDNA studied systematically in deep generation pedigrees.
International journal of legal medicine - 1 Jul 2011
Klütsch Cornelya F C, Seppälä Eija H, Uhlén Mathias, Lohi Hannes, Savolainen Peter
Abstract excerpt
Heteroplasmy, the presence of two or more variants in an organism, may render mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-based individual identification challenging in forensic analysis. However, the variation of heteroplasmic proportions and the segregation of heteroplasmic variants through generations and within families have not been systematically described at a large scale in animals such as the domestic dog. Therefore, we...
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