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Pronounced somatic bottleneck in mitochondrial DNA of human hair

Heteroplasmy is the presence of variable mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) within the same individual. The dynamics of heteroplasmy allele frequency among tissues of the human body is not well understood. Here, we measured allele frequency at heteroplasmic sites in two to eight hairs from each of 11 humans...

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Autores principales: Barrett, Alison, Arbeithuber, Barbara, Zaidi, Arslan, Wilton, Peter, Paul, Ian M., Nielsen, Rasmus, Makova, Kateryna D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6939377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31787049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0175

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