Legal Medicine
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 104-107 , March 2010

Sequence polymorphism of the mitochondrial DNA control region in the population of Vojvodina Province, Serbia

  • Dragana Zgonjanin

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Clinical Center Novi Sad, Hajduk Veljkova 1-7, 21000 Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Institute of Forensic Medicine, Clinical Center Novi Sad, Hajduk Veljkova 1-7, 21000 Novi Sad, Vojvodina Province, Republic of Serbia. Tel.: +381 21 823 488; fax: +381 21 6624 141.
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  • Igor Veselinović

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Clinical Center Novi Sad, Hajduk Veljkova 1-7, 21000 Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia
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  • Milovan Kubat

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminology, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Ivana Furač

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminology, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia
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  • Mirjana Antov

      Affiliations

    • University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technology, Department of Applied Chemistry, 21000 Novi Sad, Bul. Cara Lazara 1, Serbia
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  • Eva Lončar

      Affiliations

    • University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technology, Department of Applied Chemistry, 21000 Novi Sad, Bul. Cara Lazara 1, Serbia
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  • Miloš Tasić

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Clinical Center Novi Sad, Hajduk Veljkova 1-7, 21000 Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia
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  • Radenko Vuković

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Forensic Medicine, Clinical Center Novi Sad, Hajduk Veljkova 1-7, 21000 Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia
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  • Radovan Omorjan

      Affiliations

    • University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technology, Department of Applied Chemistry, 21000 Novi Sad, Bul. Cara Lazara 1, Serbia

Received 29 June 2009 ,Revised 27 September 2009 ,Accepted 27 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.10.007

Legal Medicine
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