Inter- and intragenerational transmission of a human mitochondrial DNA heteroplasmy among 13 maternally-related individuals and differences between and within tissues in two family members

Mitochondrion

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 401-414

  Sekiguchi, Kazumasa ^a,b   Kasai, Kentaro ^b   Levin, Barbara C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POLICE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heteroplasmy; Human; Inheritance; Mitochondrial DNA; Multigenerational; Tissue differences

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHEEK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FINGER; FINGER NAIL; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIR; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0037633511     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-7249(03)00028-X     Document Type: Article

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