Heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA variants in cardiovascular diseases.

Heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA variants in cardiovascular diseases.

Mitochondria are implicated in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) but the reasons for this are not well understood. Maternally-inherited population variants of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) which affect all mtDNA molecules (homoplasmic) are associated with cardiometabolic traits and the...

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Main Authors: Claudia Calabrese, Angela Pyle, Helen Griffin, Jonathan Coxhead, Rafiqul Hussain, Peter S Braund, Linxin Li, Annette Burgess, Patricia B Munroe, Louis Little, Helen R Warren, Claudia Cabrera, Alistair Hall, Mark J Caulfield, Peter M Rothwell, Nilesh J Samani, Gavin Hudson, Patrick F Chinnery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-04-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010068

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010068

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