Quantification of mitochondrial DNA mutation load

Aging Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 566-572

  Greaves, Laura C ^a   Beadle, Nina E ^a   Taylor, Geoffrey A ^a   Commane, Daniel ^b   Mathers, John C ^b   Khrapko, Konstantin ^c   Turnbull, Doug M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cloning; Colon; Human; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial DNA; Mutation load; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COLON MUCOSA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; BRAIN; COLON; FUNCTIONS OF THE HEMIC, LYMPHATIC AND RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEMS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTESTINE MUCOSA; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGING; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BRAIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLON; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; HUMANS; INTESTINAL MUCOSA; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 72649097680     PISSN: 14749718     EISSN: 14749726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-9726.2009.00505.x     Document Type: Article

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