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Mitochondrial haplogroups associated with lifestyle-related diseases and longevity in the Japanese population.
Geriatrics & gerontology international - 1 Jul 2010
Nishigaki Yutaka, Fuku Noriyuki, Tanaka Masashi
Abstract excerpt
Recently published results on the association between metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, myocardial infarction or atherothrombotic cerebral infarction and Japanese major haplogroups based on the comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial genome polymorphisms (mtSNP) in the coding region of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), and longevity-related haplogroups are described in the present review. Our aim was to provide...
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