Mutations of mitochondrial genome in patients with carotid atherosclerosis

With aim of detection the spectrum of mitochondrial DNA mutations in patients with carotid atherosclerosis from Moscow Region, we used a Roche 454 high-throughput sequencing of the whole mitochondrial genome. We have found that the presence of a number of homoplasmic mitochondrial DNA mutations in g...

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Main Authors: Margarita A Sazonova, Andrey V Zhelankin, Valeria A Barinova, Vasily V Sinyov, Zukhra B Khasanova, Yuri V Bobryshev, Anton Y Postnov, Igor A Sobenin, Alexander N Orekhov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Genetics
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fgene.2015.00111/full