The pedigree rate of sequence divergence in the human mitochondrial genome: There is a difference between phylogenetic and pedigree rates

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 659-670

  Howell, Neil ^a,b,c   Smejkal, Christy Bogolin ^c   Mackey, D A ^d   Chinnery, P F ^e   Turnbull, D M ^e   Herrnstadt, Corinna ^a  

^a Migenix Inc   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^d ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GERM LINE; HEREDITARY OPTIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

EID: 0037372985     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/368264     Document Type: Article

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