The inheritance of mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy: Random drift, selection or both?

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 500-505

  Chinnery, Patrick F ^a   Thorburn, David R ^b   Samuels, David C ^c   White, Sarah L ^b   Dahl, Hans Heinrik M ^b   Turnbull, Doug M ^a   Lightowlers, Robert N ^a   Howell, Neil ^d  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; INHERITANCE; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0034333230     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)02120-X     Document Type: Note

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