Does eurasian and African mitochondrial DNA influence in the Saudi Arabian population?
The majority of the Saudi-Arab mitochondrial DNA lineages (85%) have a western Asia provenance. Although the still large confidence intervals, the coalescence and phylogeography of (preHV)1 haplogroup (accounting for 18 % of Saudi Arabian lineages) matches a Neolithic expansion in Saudi Arabia.
As MRI provided greater information than radiographs, and thus would be a more sensitive test to assess skeletalgenesis in pediatric patients.