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Mitochondrial control region sequences from northern Greece and Greek Cypriots - International Journal of Legal Medicine

  • ️Parsons, Thomas J.
  • ️Fri May 11 2007

Abstract

Entire mitochondrial control region data were generated for population samples of 319 unrelated individuals from northern Greece and 91 unrelated individuals from Cyprus. The samples from northern Greece have been previously typed for 15 nuclear short tandem repeat (STR; Kovatsi et al., Forensic Sci. Int. 159:61–63, 2006).

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Acknowledgment

We thank Jennifer O’Callaghan, Heather Williams, Kimberly Watson and Rebecca Just for assistance with data analysis and database confirmation. The opinions and assertions contained herein are solely those of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as views of the US Department of Defense or the US Department of the Army.

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    Present address: International Commission on Missing Persons, Alipašina 45 A, 71000, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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  1. Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Building 101, 1413 Research Boulevard, 20850, Rockville, MD, USA

    Jodi Irwin, Jessica Saunier, Katharine Strouss, Carla Paintner, Toni Diegoli, Kimberly Sturk & Thomas J. Parsons

  2. Laboratory of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology,School of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Leda Kovatsi

  3. Institute of Legal Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Müllerstrasse 44, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Anita Brandstätter & Walther Parson

  4. Laboratory of Forensic Genetics, The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, P.O. Box 23462, 1683, Nicosia, Cyprus

    Marios A. Cariolou

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Figure S1

Map of northern Greece and regions sampled. The number in parentheses represents the sample size from region 1 Grevena (4), 2 Kastoria (6), 3 Kozani (19), 4 Florina (6), 5 Pella (18), 6 Imathia (18), 7 Pieria (17), 8 Kilkis (9), 9 Thessaloniki (147), 10 Halkidiki (14), 11 Serres (29), 12 Drama (14), and 13 Kavala (18) (DOC 45 KB)

Table S1

Entire control region sequences from 91 Greek Cypriots listed as differences from the rCRS, with insertions at polycytosine stretches ignored. Frequency of occurrence of each haplotype is listed, as well as inferred haplogroup attribution, where known (DOC 76 KB)

Table S2

Entire control region sequences from 319 Northern Greeks listed as differences from the rCRS, with insertions at polycytosine stretches ignored. Frequency of occurrence of each haplotype is listed, as well as inferred haplogroup attribution, where known (DOC 202 KB)

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Irwin, J., Saunier, J., Strouss, K. et al. Mitochondrial control region sequences from northern Greece and Greek Cypriots. Int J Legal Med 122, 87–89 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-007-0173-7

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  • Received: 07 September 2006

  • Accepted: 02 April 2007

  • Published: 11 May 2007

  • Issue Date: January 2008

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-007-0173-7

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