Mitochondrial DNA point mutations and relative copy number in 1363 disease and control human brains.

Mitochondria play a key role in common neurodegenerative diseases and contain their own genome: mtDNA. Common inherited polymorphic variants of mtDNA have been associated with several neurodegenerative diseases, and somatic deletions of mtDNA have been found in affected brain regions. However, there...

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Main Authors: Wei, W, Keogh, M, Wilson, I, Coxhead, J, Ryan, S, Rollinson, S, Griffin, H, Kurzawa-Akanbi, M, Santibanez-Koref, M, Talbot, K, Turner, M, McKenzie, C, Troakes, C, Attems, J, Smith, C, Al Sarraj, S, Morris, C, Ansorge, O, Pickering-Brown, S, Ironside, J, Chinnery, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2017