African Journal of
Biotechnology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1684-5315
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJB
  • Start Year: 2002
  • Published Articles: 12502

Full Length Research Paper

Analysis of mtDNA hypervariable region II for increasing the discrimination power from Middle and South of Iraq

Ameera Omran Hussein
  • Ameera Omran Hussein
  • Department of Molecular Biology, Babylon University, Hilla City, Iraq.
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Muhanned Abdulhasan Kareem
  • Muhanned Abdulhasan Kareem
  • Babylon University, Centre of Environmental Research, Iraq.
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Imad Hadi Hameed*
  • Imad Hadi Hameed*
  • Department of Molecular Biology, Babylon University, Hilla City, Iraq.
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  •  Received: 08 February 2015
  •  Accepted: 02 March 2015
  •  Published: 11 March 2015

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Mohammed AJ, Imad HH, Muhanned AK (2015). Detection of New Variant "Off-ladder" at the (D12S391, D19S433 and D1S1656 loci) and Tri-allelic Pattern at the D16S539 Locus in a 21 Locus Autosomal Short Tandem Repeat Database of 400 Iraqi Individuals. Afri. J. Biotechnol. 14(5):375-399.

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Muhanned AK, Ameer IA, Imad HH, Mohammed AJ. (2015) A New Polymorphic Positions Discovered in Mitochondrial DNA Hypervariable Region HVIII From Central and North-Central of Iraq. Mitochondrial DNA. 1-5.

  
 

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