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Genetic characterization of the Makrani people of Pakistan from mitochondrial DNA control-region data.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Mar 2015
Siddiqi Muhammad Hassan, Akhtar Tanveer, Rakha Allah, Abbas Ghazanfar, Ali Akram, Haider Naeem, Ali Azam, Hayat Sikandar, Masooma Syeda, Ahmad Jamil, Tariq Muhammad Akram, van Oven Mannis, Khan Fazle Majid
Abstract excerpt
To estimate genetic and forensic parameters, the entire mitochondrial DNA control region of 100 unrelated Makrani individuals (males, n=96; females, n=4) living in Pakistan (Turbat, Panjgur, Awaran, Kharan, Nasirabad, Gwadar, Buleda, Karachi and Burewala) was sequenced. We observed a total of 70 different haplotypes of which 54 were unique and 16 were shared by more than one individual. The Makrani population...
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