Identifying NUMT contamination in mtDNA analyses Ana Goios, Ana Carvalho, António Amorim  Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series  Volume 2, Issue 1, Pages 278-280 (December 2009) DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigss.2009.08.076 Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions

Fig. 1 Examples of the electropherograms obtained in cat samples for two different locations in the control region. They were aligned using Geneious software to the cat reference sequence, to sequences resultant from the BLAT analysis of the cat mtDNA against the cat genome (chrUnM) and to a previously reported NUMT (FCU20754). Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series 2009 2, 278-280DOI: (10.1016/j.fsigss.2009.08.076) Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions

Fig. 2 Phylogenetic networks obtained from the analysis of the cat mtDNA sequences. The large network results from the analysis of two fragments in the control region (HVI, HVII) and a part of tRNA-Pro. The small network is shown for comparison and was obtained from the analysis of the two protein coding genes ND5 and ND6. The samples used for the first analysis are also present in the second one. Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series 2009 2, 278-280DOI: (10.1016/j.fsigss.2009.08.076) Copyright © 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd Terms and Conditions