A Phylogenetic Approach for the Study of Variation and Determination of Population Affiliation of Indigent Human Skeletal Remains

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has played a major role in human population studies over the past decade due to its maternal inheritance and negligible recombination (Macaulay, 1999). The mtDNA control region has been the focus of these studies due to the highly polymorphic nature of this non-coding regio...

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Main Author: Wetherington, Hattie Bea
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2005
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Online Access:https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/912
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1911&context=etd