Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol 8, 399-415, Copyright © 1991 by Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
K Hayasaka, T Ishida and S Horai
We have sequenced the major noncoding region of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
of four Japanese monkeys and have found length polymorphism in the
sequenced region. The length polymorphism resulted from two tandem
duplications of 160-bp sequences which contained the conserved sequence
blocks 2 and 3 and the light-strand transcription-promoter region. We also
found polymorphisms in this mtDNA region among 100 Japanese monkeys from 12
localities, 90 of which were analyzed using DNA amplified through the
polymerase chain reaction. In two localities, we found individuals with
heteroplasmic mtDNA which had different numbers of the 160-bp repeats
mentioned above. The 100 samples were classified into six types in terms of
length and presence/absence of the recognition site of two restriction
enzymes in the major noncoding region.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Heteroplasmy and polymorphism in the major noncoding region of mitochondrial DNA in Japanese monkeys: association with tandemly repeated sequences
Department of Human Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Japan.
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