The Mutation Rate in the Human mtDNA Control Region

2000/05/01 by Sigrún Sigurðardóttir, Agnar Helgason, Jeffrey R. Gulcher +2 · 8 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biology #Demography #Forensic and Genetic Research #Founder effect #Gene #Genetics #Genomics and Rare Diseases #Genotype #Haplotype #Heteroplasmy #Hypervariable region #Icelandic #Metabolism and Genetic Disorders #Mitochondrial DNA #Mutation #Mutation rate #Pedigree chart #Population #mtDNA control region

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Citations

• Linkage Disequilibrium and Recombination in Hominid Mitochondrial DNA
• A high observed substitution rate in the human mitochondrial DNA control region
• The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution
• Mitochondrial Eve: the plot thickens
• Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution

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