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Título: Results of the 1999-2000 collaborative exercise and proficiency testing program on mitochondrial DNA of the GEP-ISFG: An inter-laboratory study of the observed variability in the heteroplasmy level of hair from the same donor
Autores/as: Alonso, Antonio 
Salas, Antonio
Albarrán, Cristina
Arroyo, Eduardo
Castro, Azucena
Crespillo, Manuel
Lonardo, Ana María di
Lareu, María Victoria
López Cubría, Carlos
López Soto, Manuel
Lorente, José A.
Montesino Semper, Marta
Palacio, Ana
Paredes, Manuel
Pereira, Luisa
Pérez Lezaun, Anna
Pestano-Brito, José J. 
Sala, Andrea
Vide, María Conceiçao
Whittle, Martín
Yunis, Juan J.
Gómez, Josefina
Clasificación UNESCO: 320102 Genética clínica
Palabras clave: Collaborative Exercise
Forensic Science Heteroplasmy
Hair Shafts
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Polymorphism
Standardization
Fecha de publicación: 2002
Publicación seriada: Forensic Science International 
Resumen: The Spanish and Portuguese working group (GEP) of international society for forensic genetics (ISFG) 1999-2000 collaborative exercise on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) included the analysis of four bloodstain samples and one hair shaft sample by 19 participating laboratories from Spain, Portugal and several Latin-American countries. A wide range of sequence results at position 16,093 of the HV1 (from T or C homoplasmy to different levels of heteroplasmy) were submitted by the different participating laboratories from the hair shaft sample during the first phase of this exercise. During the discussion of these results in the Annual GEP-ISFG 2000 Conference a second phase of this exercise was established with two main objectives: (i) to evaluate the incidence of the HV1 sequence heteroplasmy detected in Phase I across different sample types from the same donor including blood, saliva, and hair shafts, (ii) to perform a technical review of the electropherograms to evaluate the relative levels of heteroplasmies obtained by the different laboratories and also to examine the source of possible errors detected in Phase I. Anonymous review of the raw sequence data permitted the detection of three transcription errors and three errors due to methodological problems. Highly variable levels of heteroplasmy were found in the hair shaft and more stability in blood and saliva. Three laboratories found variable levels of heteroplasmy at position 16,093 across adjacent fragments from the same hair shaft. Two laboratories also described more than one heteroplasmic position from a single hair. The relevance of these findings for the interpretation of mtDNA data in the forensic context is also discussed.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/74098
ISSN: 0379-0738
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-0738(01)00602-8
Fuente: Forensic Science International [ISSN 0379-0738], v. 125 (1), p. 1-7, (Enero 2002)
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