Mapping gene associations in human mitochondria using clinical disease phenotypes.

Nuclear genes encode most mitochondrial proteins, and their mutations cause diverse and debilitating clinical disorders. To date, 1,200 of these mitochondrial genes have been recorded, while no standardized catalog exists of the associated clinical phenotypes. Such a catalog would be useful to devel...

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Main Authors: Curt Scharfe, Henry Horng-Shing Lu, Jutta K Neuenburg, Edward A Allen, Guan-Cheng Li, Thomas Klopstock, Tina M Cowan, Gregory M Enns, Ronald W Davis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-04-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/19390613/?tool=EBI