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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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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