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Site 73 in hypervariable region II of the human mitochondrial genome and the origin of European populations.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Nov 1996
Wilkinson-Herbots H M, Richards M B, Forster P, Sykes B C
Abstract excerpt
The majority of published human mitochondrial DNA sequence data are confined to hypervariable region I in the control region. By contrast, this paper focuses on a nucleotide site in hypervariable region II. Unlike most non-European populations whose mtDNA sequences have been studied in the literature, the British 'white Caucasian' population has a high level of variation at site 73 (following the site numbering...
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