Genotypes from patients indicate no paternal mitochondrial DNA contribution

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 521-524

  Taylor, Robert W ^a   McDonnell, Martina T ^a   Blakely, Emma L ^a   Chinnery, Patrick F ^a   Taylor, Geoffrey A ^a,b   Howell, Neil ^c,d   Zeviani, Massimo ^e   Briem, Egill ^e   Carrara, Franco ^e   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Migenix Inc   (United States)

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

^e DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FATHERS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHIES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REFERENCE VALUES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0141819161     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.10673     Document Type: Article

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