Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy: Out of the Closet

Biological Chemistry Hoppe-Seyler

Volumn 377, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 603-604

  Stoneking, Mark ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

DNA REPLICATION; EDITORIAL; GENETICS; GENOME;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME;

EID: 0030253391     PISSN: 01773593     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm3.1996.377.10.603     Document Type: Article

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