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Developmental and pathological changes in the human cardiac muscle mitochondrial DNA organization, replication and copy number.
PloS one - 3 May 2010
Pohjoismäki Jaakko L O, Goffart Steffi, Taylor Robert W, Turnbull Douglas M, Suomalainen Anu, Jacobs Howard T, Karhunen Pekka J
Abstract excerpt
Adult human heart mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has recently been shown to have a complex organization with abundant dimeric molecules, branched structures and four-way junctions. In order to understand the physiological significance of the heart-specific mtDNA maintenance mode and to find conditions that modify human heart mtDNA structure and replication, we analyzed healthy human heart of various ages as well as...
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