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Impact of disease-related mitochondrial mutations on tRNA structure and function.
Trends in biochemical sciences - 1 Nov 2003
Wittenhagen Lisa M, Kelley Shana O
Abstract excerpt
Over 150 mutations with documented pathogenicity have been identified within the human mitochondrial genome. More than half of the disease-related mutations are located within tRNA genes, a remarkable trend, given that these sequences comprise only 10% of the genome. The discovery of diseases correlated with mitochondrial tRNA mutations provides the first example of a class of pathologies related to RNA function,...
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