Detecting Rare Triple Heteroplasmic Substitutions in the Mitochondrial DNA Control Region:A Potential Concern for Forensic DNA Studies

Objective: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a useful tool for population studies, identificationof humans and forensic DNA studies. The existence of several hundreds copies ofmtDNA per cell permit its extraction from minute or degraded samples. In addition, thelevel of polymorphism in the hypervariable...

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Main Authors: Saeid Morovvati, Ziba Morovvati, Reza Ranjbar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Royan Institute (ACECR), Tehran 2011-01-01
Series:Cell Journal
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Online Access:http://www.celljournal.org/library/upload/article/af_4225235573452535473523242427562345565784Morovati.pdf