Mitochondrial DNA does not contribute to the heritability of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Mitochondrion

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 234-235

  de Alwis, Nimantha ^a,b   Aithal, Guruprasad ^c   Bugianesi, Elizabetta ^c   Leathart, Julian ^b   Hudson, Gavin ^a   Pyle, Angela ^a   Mowbray, Catherine ^a   Henderson, Elsbeth ^d   Burt, Alistair D ^b   Chinnery, Patrick F ^a   Day, Christopher P ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Biomedical Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial dysfunction; MtDNA polymorphism; NAFLD histology; NASH

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LETTER; NONALCOHOLIC FATTY LIVER; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; ITALY; LIVER; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 78650007268     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2010.09.009     Document Type: Letter

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