The other human genome: Mitochondrial DNA and disease

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1065-1068

  Johns, Donald R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

GENETIC DISORDER; GENOME; HUMAN; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHIES; OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0029820524     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1096-1065     Document Type: Short Survey

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