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. 1998 Jan 1;26(1):126–129. doi: 10.1093/nar/26.1.126

Compilation of human mtDNA control region sequences.

O Handt 1, S Meyer 1, A von Haeseler 1
PMCID: PMC147248  PMID: 9399816

Abstract

This paper describes the organisation of a database for human mitochondrial control-region sequences. The data are divided into three ASCII files that contain aligned sequences from the hypervariable region I (HVRI), from the hypervariable region II (HVRII), and the available information about the individuals, from whom the sequences stem. The current collection comprises 4079 HVRI and 969 HVRII sequences. From 728 individuals sequences of both HVRI and HVRII are available. For easy access, the collection is made available to the scientific community via World Wide Web at URL http://www.zi.biologie.uni-muenchen.de/[symbol: see text]meyers/mtdna.html

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