Random genetic drift in the female germline explains the rapid segregation of mammalian mitochondrial DNA

Nature Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 146-151

  Jenuth, Jack P ^a,b   Peterson, Alan C ^a,b   Fu, Katherine ^a,b   Shoubridge, Eric A ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED NZB; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; OOGONIA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0029816795     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1096-146     Document Type: Article

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