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High frequency of mitochondrial DNA mutations in glioblastoma multiforme identified by direct sequence comparison to blood samples.
International journal of cancer - 15 Aug 2001
Kirches E, Krause G, Warich-Kirches M, Weis S, Schneider T, Meyer-Puttlitz B, Mawrin C, Dietzmann K
Abstract excerpt
In an earlier study, we showed that heteroplasmy in the mitochondrial genome of gliomas sometimes occurs in a D-loop polycytosine tract. We extended this study by pairwise comparisons between glioma samples and adjacent brain tissue of 55 patients (50 glioblastomas, 1 astrocytoma WHO grade III, 4 astrocytomas WHO grade II). We used a combination of laser microdissection and PCR to detect and quantify variations...
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