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Genomic Landscape of the Mitochondrial Genome in the United Arab Emirates Native Population.
Genes - 1 Aug 2020
Aljasmi Fatma A, Vijayan Ranjit, Sudalaimuthuasari Naganeeswaran, Souid Abdul-Kader, Karuvantevida Noushad, Almaskari Raja, Mohammed Abdul Kader Hidaya, Kundu Biduth, Michel Hazzouri Khaled, Amiri Khaled M A
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In order to assess the genomic landscape of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) mitogenome, we sequenced and analyzed the complete genomes of 232 Emirate females mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) within and compared those to Africa. We investigated the prevalence of haplogroups, genetic variation, heteroplasmy, and demography among the UAE native population with diverse ethnicity and relatively high degree of consanguinity....
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