Animal cells and systems
- Volume 3 Issue 4
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- Pages.393-397
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- 1999
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- 1976-8354(pISSN)
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- 2151-2485(eISSN)
Distribution of Length Variation of the mtDNA 9-bp Motif in the Intergenic COII/tRNAX$^{Lys}$ Region in East Asian Populations
- Han Jun Jin (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Dankook University) ;
- Jeon Won Choi (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Dankook University) ;
- Dong Jik Shin (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Dankook University) ;
- Jung Min Kim (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Dankook University) ;
- Wook Kim (Department of Biology, College of Natural Sciences, Dankook University)
- Published : 1999.12.01
Abstract
Length variations in human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) offer useful markers in the study of female aspects of human population history. One such length variation is a 9-bp deletion in the small noncoding segment located between the COII and Iysine tRNA genes (COII/tRNA/