Mitochondrial dna heteroplasmy in diabetes and normal adults: Role of acquired and inherited mutational patterns in twins

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 4214-4224

  Avital, Gal ^a   Buchshtav, Mor ^a   Zhidkov, Ilia ^a   Tuval, Jeanette ^a   Dadon, Sarah ^a   Rubin, Eitan ^a   Glass, Dan ^b   Spector, Timothy D ^b   Mishmar, Dan ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROPLASMIC MUTATION; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84866375516     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds245     Document Type: Article

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