Neutral mitochondrial heteroplasmy and the influence of aging

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1653-1659

  Sondheimer, Neal ^a,b   Glatz, Catherine E ^b   Tirone, Jack E ^b   Deardorff, Matthew A ^a,b   Krieger, Abba M ^a,c   Hakonarson, Hakon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGING; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ALLELES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953080734     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr043     Document Type: Article

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