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A compendium of human mitochondrial DNA control region: development of an international standard forensic database
1Federal Bureau of Investigation, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20535, USA. bbudowle@fbi.gov
Croatian Medical Journal
|June 2, 2001
Abstract:
A compendium of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region types has been constructed. This updated compilation indexes over 10,000 population-specific mtDNA nucleotide sequences in a standardized format. The sequences represent mtDNA types from the Scientific Working Group on DNA Analysis Methods (SWGDAM) mtDNA database and from the public literature. The SWGDAM data are considered to be of higher quality than the public data, particularly for counting the number of times a particular haplotype has been observed.