The determination of complete human mitochondrial DNA sequences in single cells: Implications for the study of somatic mitochondrial DNA point mutations

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 29, Issue 15, 2020, Pages

  Taylor, Robert W ^a   Taylor, Geoffrey A ^a   Durham, Steve E ^a   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; CELL EXTRACT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ISOENZYME; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROSTAGLANDIN SYNTHASE; PTGS2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COX II GENE; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOMATIC MUTATION; ALLELE; CELL CULTURE; CHILD; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ALLELES; CELL EXTRACTS; CHILD; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0035432034     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/29.15.e74     Document Type: Article

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