Independent occurence of somatic mutation in mitochondrial DNA of human skin from subjects of various ages

Human Mutation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 191-196

  Liu, Vincent W S ^a   Zhang, Chunfang ^a   Pang, Cheng Yoong ^b   Lee, Hsin Chen ^b   Lu, Ching You ^b   Wei, Yau Huei ^b   Nagley, Phillip ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ageing; Human; MtDNA; PCR; Skin; Somatic mutation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGING; ARTICLE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUTATION RATE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; ADULT; AGED; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE DELETION; SKIN; TAIWAN;

EID: 0031594165     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1004(1998)11:3<191::AID-HUMU2>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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