Mitochondrial DNA-Like Sequences in the Nucleus (NUMTs): Insights into Our African Origins and the Mechanism of Foreign DNA Integration

Human Mutation

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-133

  Mishmar, Dan ^a   Ruiz Pesini, Eduardo ^a   Brandon, Martin ^a   Wallace, Douglas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mitochondria; MtDNA; Nuclear mitochondrial DNA sequence; NUMT

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA INTEGRATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 1042299965     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.10304     Document Type: Article

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