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Evolution of heteroplasmy at a mitochondrial tandem repeat locus in cultured rabbit cells.
Current genetics - 1 Oct 2002
Casane Didier, Guéride Monique
Abstract excerpt
Surveys of animal mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) polymorphism reveal that mtDNA length variation is common. Much of this variation involves non-coding tandem repeat arrays in the main control region of the molecule. Despite a high mutation rate, generating systematic individual mtDNA length heteroplasmy, the number of repeats in a tandem array is maintained within a narrow range in lagomorphs. To investigate the basis...
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