In a broader sense, only studies that also include nuclear DNA can provide a comprehensive evolutionary history of a population.
Still, this quantity is small compared to nuclear DNA.
These results are similar to those reported in 1992 that compared sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA.
Most of the time they're talking about nuclear DNA, the kind that comes, in equal halves, from your mother and your father.
Until the early 1990s, histones were dismissed as merely packing material for nuclear DNA.
Most mitochondrial function and biogenesis is controlled by nuclear DNA.
Human nuclear DNA has normal variation for a primate.
Evaluation and quantification of nuclear DNA from human telogen hairs.
The X-chromosome is also a form of nuclear DNA.
It is also not certain that sufficient nuclear DNA will be found, in good enough condition, to make positive identification of Columbus's remains.