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• Main Authors: Madjid Delghandia, Egil Utsi C, Stefan Kraussb, Mitochondrial Dna, D Loop, Stefan Krauss Md
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: saami
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.620.8843; http://class.csueastbay.edu/faculty/gmiller/3710/dna_pdfs/mtdna/mtdna_saami.pdf

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO The mitochondrial DNA of 62 Saami from the north of Nor-way was analyzed in the D loop hypervariable region I and II and sequences were compared to other gene pools. Two major (lineage 1 and 2) and two minor (lineage 3 and 4) maternal lineage clusters were found. Lineage 1 (56.9 % of all hitherto analyzed Saami samples) contains a substantial number of branching haplotypes which are unknown in European gene pools. Lineage 2 (31.5%) and lineage 4 (3.6%) have few branching points and are present at a low rate throughout European gene pools. Lineage 3 (4.7%) has polymorphisms characteristic of circumpolar lineages. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO