Accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations in ageing, cancer, and mitochondrial disease: Is there a common mechanism?

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Volumn 360, Issue 9342, 2002, Pages 1323-1325

  Chinnery, Patrick F ^a   Samuels, David C ^a   Elson, Joanna ^a   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER; CELL DIVISION; CELL LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYTOPATHOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; GENE MUTATION; GENE NUMBER; GENOME; HETEROPLASMY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POLYPLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

EID: 0037180245     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11310-9     Document Type: Note

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