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Heteroplasmy of Mitochondrial DNA Shown in Korean and Mongolian

김근철 1 김기정 2 이광호 2 Park Ae Ja 2 김경용 2 김애진 1 김재헌 3 다스제벡투멩 4 노맹석 5

1강원대학교
2중앙대학교
3동아대학교
4몽골국립대학
5부경대학교

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ABSTRACT

As characterization of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) shows maternal inheritance and exists as more than thousands copies per cell, it is widely used for population genetics and forensic scientific field. However, mitochondrial DNA study has difficulties because heteroplasmy of mtDNA is being reported from coding and control region. In this study, we have analyzed 200 samples to examine heteroplasmy in mitochondrial DNA of Korean and Mongolian. The control region and coding region in mtDNA of blood from Koreans and Mongolians were analyzed with PCR amplication and sequencing. As a result, several heteroplasmy was observed from total 10 positions including 5 positions in coding region and 5 positions in control region, respectively. Moreover, it showed more than one heteroplasmy in coding region from 6 samples in Korean and 17 samples in Mongolian. Interestingly, heteroplasmy at 5178 position was shown in 6 samples among 23 samples. Considering that the position is important for deciding haplogroup D, we suggest that additional analysis on 4883 position needs for correct haplogrouping. Beside, we also found heteroplasmy in the other positions of 204, 4853, or 16249. Therefore, we suggest that it is required of combinatory analysis on several key nucleotide positions to obtain good results when determining mitochondrial haplogroups.

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