I've been browsing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/ and looking for the current number of full mtDNA sequences for humans.  Please let me know where that number can be found. Thanks and sincerely, Peter Peter J. Roberts

Not sure, but they do have a statistics page with contact information: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/statistics Let us know what you discover! --Robert Peter J. Roberts via wrote: > I've been browsing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/ and looking for the current number of full mtDNA sequences for humans. Please let me know where that number can be found. > Thanks and sincerely, Peter > > Peter J. Roberts >

Peter Unfortunately, GenBank doesn't give a total - and I suggest there are about 30,700 sequences at present. But this total is not really accurate as, for example, about 1,000 sequences from the 1000 Genome project are duplicated. So perhaps a better estimate is to say there are 29,500+ distinct sequences. Searching with - "homo sapiens" [organism] "complete genome" mitochondrion - gives 30342 and with - "homo sapiens" [organism] "complete genome" - gives 30522 And then there is - "homo sapiens" [organism] " partial genome" mitochondrion - which gives another 363 Also, there is the problem of the 'Kampira' set of 200+ African sequences which are all CRS !! - oops !! I do try to keep my page up-to-date at: http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/checker/accession.htm but I know this list is not totally correct. Ian ------------- On 27/10/2015 18:51, Peter J. Roberts via wrote: > I've been browsing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/ and looking for the current number of full mtDNA sequences for humans. Please let me know where that number can be found. > Thanks and sincerely, Peter > > Peter J. Roberts