Genetic Diversity Analysis of the Chinese Daur Ethnic Group in Heilongjiang Province by Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has the characteristics of maternal inheritance, high mutation rate, high copy number, and no recombination. As the most powerful tool for studying the origin and evolution of modern humans, mtDNA has great significance in the research of population genetics and evolutionary genetics. Here, we provide new insights into the maternal genetic history of the Daur ethnic group by generating complete mitochondrial genomes from a total of 146 Daur individuals in China. We also collected the published complete mitochondrial genome sequences of 5,094 individuals from 56 worldwide populations as reference data to further explore the matrilineal genetic landscape of the Daur ethnic group. First, the haplotype diversity was 0.9943 ± 0.0019 and nucleotide diversity was

SUBMITTER: Jia M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9253502 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature