Effect of length variations at nucleotide positions 303-315 in human mitochondrial DNA on transcription termination

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 361, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 641-644

  Asari, Masaru ^a   Tan, Yuka ^a   Watanabe, Satoshi ^a   Shimizu, Keiko ^a   Shiono, Hiroshi ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Length variations; Mitochondrial DNA; Premature termination; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TEMPLATE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 34547787682     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.07.055     Document Type: Article

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