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ArticleHuman mutation2008

A novel 154-bp deletion in the human mitochondrial DNA control region in healthy individuals.

Doron M Behar, Jason Blue-Smith, David F Soria-Hernanz, Shay Tzur, Yarin Hadid, Concetta Bormans, Alexander Moen, Chris Tyler-Smith, Lluis Quintana-Murci, R Spencer Wells and 1 more

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Article in Human mutation, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mechanisms and regulation of human mitochondrial transcription.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2024
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  2. Human mitochondrial DNA replication.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2012
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Doron M BeharMolecular Medicine Laboratory, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel. GenoPubs@ngs.org
Jason Blue-Smith
David F Soria-Hernanz
Shay Tzur
Yarin Hadid
Concetta Bormans
Alexander Moen
Chris Tyler-Smith
Lluis Quintana-Murci
R Spencer Wells
Genographic Consortium

Funding

Wellcome Trust 077009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The biological role of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region in mtDNA replication remains unclear. In a worldwide survey of mtDNA variation in the general population, we have identified a novel large control region deletion spanning positions 16154 to 16307 (m.16154_16307del154). The population prevalence of this deletion is low, since it was only observed in 1 out of over 120,000 mtDNA genomes studied. The deletion is present in a nonheteroplasmic state, and was transmitted by a mother to her two sons with no apparent past or present disease conditions. The identification of this large deletion in healthy individuals challenges the current view of the control region as playing a crucial role in the regulation of mtDNA replication, and supports the existence of a more complex system of multiple or epigenetically-determined replication origins.

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DNA ReplicationLocus Control RegionSequence DeletionBase SequenceDNA, MitochondrialDNA Mutational AnalysisFemaleHumansMaleMitochondriaMolecular Sequence DataDNA, Mitochondrial

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PMID18629826
PMCPMC2697596

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