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Mitochondrial DNA variation in Tajiks living in Tajikistan.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Nov 2014
Ovchinnikov Igor V, Malek Mathew J, Drees Kenneth, Kholina Olga I
Abstract excerpt
This study aimed to characterize mtDNA control region (positions 16,024-576) of unrelated Tajiks living in Tajikistan. DNA was isolated from saliva specimens stored on FTA cards. The mtDNA fragments were amplified and directly sequenced in forward and reverse directions. Haplogroups were determined using HaploGrep and the diagnostic polymorphisms in the coding region of mtDNA. The Tajik mtDNA pool was...
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