Analysis of mitochondrial DNA hypervariable regions I and II in a North Portuguese population

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2000

Authors

Pereira, L (Author) Other; Prata, MJ (Author) FCUP; Amorim, A (Author) FCUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: PROGRESS IN FORENSIC GENETICS 8

Pages: 338-340

18th Congress of the International-Society-for-Forensic-Haemogenetics (ISFH)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, AUG 17-21, 1999

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FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Other medical sciences

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Authenticus ID: P-001-25B

Abstract (EN): Sequencing of the HVRI region of mtDNA in 100 unrelated individuals from North Portugal showed that this Iberian population presented a high level of sequence diversity and a peculiar distribution of pairwise nucleotide differences comparatively to other neighbouring populations. Classification of sequences in haplogroups (based on HVRI and position 73 of HVRII) revealed the presence of all major European clusters. Besides those, sequences belonging to North African and Sub-Saharan haplogroups (U6, L2 and L3) were also found reflecting the African influence under the mitochondrial gene pool of this Iberian population.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 3