Purifying Selection against Pathogenic Mitochondrial DNA in Human T Cells
Copyright © 2020 Massachusetts Medical Society. Many mitochondrial diseases are caused by mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Patients’ cells contain a mixture of mutant and nonmutant mtDNA (a phenomenon called heteroplasmy). The proportion of mutant mtDNA varies across patients and among tissue...
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Massachusetts Medical Society
2021
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135482 |