Highlights
- •We present mitochondrial DNA population data for South East Turkey, which is underrepresented in the forensic literature.
- •The sequences were analyzed according to the highest quality standard in forensic genetics.
- •The population data will be uploaded onto EMPOP upon publication of the data (EMP00670).
Abstract
Despite its large geographic and population size only little is known about the mitochondrial
(mt)DNA make up of Turkey.orensically relevant data are almost completely absent in
the literature. We analyzed the mtDNA control region of 224 volunteers from South
Eastern Turkey and compared the data to populations from neighboring countries. The
haplotypes will be made available via the EMPOP database (EMP00670) and contribute
to the body of forensic mtDNA data.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: July 25, 2016
Accepted:
July 23,
2016
Received in revised form:
July 12,
2016
Received:
June 14,
2016
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