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Mitochondrial DNA in human identification: a review
2019-01-24
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) presents several characteristics useful for forensic studies, especially related to the lack of recombination, to a high copy number, and to matrilineal inheritance. mtDNA typing based on sequences of the control region or full genomic sequences analysis is used to analyze a variety of forensicsamples such as old bones, teeth and hair, as well as other biological samples where the DNA con...
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- b64a0790-1643-5cd5-9817-9912c1d1780b
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- 10.7287/peerj.preprints.27500v1