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Mitochondrial mutations are associated with atherosclerotic lesions in the human aorta.
Clinical & developmental immunology - 1 Jan 2012
Sobenin Igor A, Sazonova Margarita A, Postnov Anton Y, Bobryshev Yuri V, Orekhov Alexander N
Abstract excerpt
Somatic mutations of the human mitochondrial genome can be a possible determinant of atherosclerosis. To test this possibility, forty mitochondrial mutations were analyzed in the present study in order to see which of these mutations might be associated with atherosclerosis. Ten mitochondrial mut...
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