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01-10-2004 | Original Article

Artificial recombination in forensic mtDNA population databases

Authors: H.-J. Bandelt, A. Salas, S. Lutz-Bonengel

Published in: International Journal of Legal Medicine | Issue 5/2004

Abstract

Artificial recombination of two or more mitochondrial DNA fragments from different samples would constitute a serious cause of error in forensic DNA typing, and yet one can demonstrate that such events have happened in the preparation of several published mtDNA databases. Focussed database searches, phylogenetic analysis, and network representations can highlight mosaic patterns and thus pinpoint sample mix-up. Therefore, we suggest that this approach should be applied to data prior to publication in order to uncover such errors in time.

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Title: Artificial recombination in forensic mtDNA population databases
Authors: H.-J. Bandelt
A. Salas
S. Lutz-Bonengel
Publication date: 01-10-2004
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: International Journal of Legal Medicine / Issue 5/2004
Print ISSN: 0937-9827
Electronic ISSN: 1437-1596
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-004-0455-2

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