mtDNA diversity in Sudan (East Africa)

Received 18 August 2007; accepted 9 October 2007.

Abstract

A major effort must be put in East and sub-Saharan African mtDNA diversity characterisation for the construction of an informative database. We contribute 102 new HVRI+HVRII Sudanese sequences. As expected this sample is highly diverse, mainly constituted of unique haplotypes (2.07% random match probability for HVRI alone), 72.5% of which belong to sub-Saharan haplogroups.

Keywords: mtDNA, Sudan, HVRI, HVRII, Haplotype match

a IPATIMUP (Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto), Porto, Portugal

b Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas de Abel Salazar (ICBAS), Universidade do Porto, Portugal

c Dubai Police Forensic Administration, 1493 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

d Medical Faculty, University of Porto, Portugal

Corresponding author at: IPATIMUP (Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto), R. Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal. Tel.: +351 225570700; fax: +351 225570799.

PII: S1875-1768(08)00161-3

doi:10.1016/j.fsigss.2007.10.118

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