Do sequence variants in the major non-coding region of the mitochondrial genome influence mitochondrial mutations associated with disease?

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 473-479

  Marchington, David R ^a   Poulton, Joanna ^a   Sellar, Anneke ^b   Holt, Ian J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACYL;

EID: 0029881588     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.4.473     Document Type: Article

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