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General mtDNA Resources
Mitosearch MitoSearch allows any person who has already received his or her HVR1 or HVR2 results from any testing lab to upload those results for comparison purposes. MitoSearch will then compare that person’s DNA numbers against others who voluntarily have done the same.
The Scandinavian mtDNA Project
Full Sequence Resources/Links
Ancestor map for those who have ordered full sequence results As of 8th April 2010, 333 project members have ordered full sequence testing; any of your matches that have done so will have an “FGS” after their name in your mtDNA Matches list.
Human mtDNA Tree is regularly updated by van Oven et al. based on the published research. “Here we provide a phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation, based on both coding and control region mutations, and including haplogroup nomenclature. This mtDNA tree is meant as a framework for evolutionary anthropologists, medical geneticists, genealogists and forensic geneticists.”
Submit your sequence to GenBank. GenBank is an enormous, international database containing sequences submitted by scientists and individuals. All submissions are anonymous, identified only by an ID called an accession number. The more sequences uploaded, the better for mtDNA research; please contact me at fimtdna@gmail.com for help with this. Detailed instructions for searching GenBank are at Ian Logan’s website below; click on the ‘Using Greasemonkey to show Mutation Lists for GenBank sequences’ link.
Ian Logan’s mtDNA site has multiple pages of mtDNA resources, including haplogroup charts, haplogroup finder, sequence analyser and collections of full sequences listed by haplogroup. This is also the place to download the Firefox add-on utility ‘Greasemonkey,’ which you will need in order to read full sequences at GenBank.
mitomap’s ‘Reported Mitochondrial DNA Base Substitution Diseases.’ Check your coding region results against the list at this website. The disease codes are down at the bottom of the page; the column labeled ‘Nucleotide Position’ is the one containing markers and their changes that are known or suspected of being linked to the listed diseases.
mtDB The Human Mitochondrial Genome Database, maintained by Max Ingman of Uppsala University, Sweden. Download full mitochondrial sequences, and search for specific mtDNA markers/mutations in their extensive database.
mtDNA Haplogroup Projects
H and HV mtDNA Haplogroup Project For those who have upgraded to full sequence testing, there is also an H sub-clade Discovery Project as well as multiple H sub-clade projects; please contact H admin Rebekah Canada for details.
U5b Full Sequence Project A project recently started by Finland DNA Project member Ilmari Kivinen for those who have full sequence results that place them within U5b (U5b*, U5b1, U5b2, etc.). new
