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Mitochondrial and nuclear genomics and the emergence of personalized medicine.
Human genomics - 5 Jul 2012
Parr Ryan L, Martin Luis H
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Developing early detection biosensors for disease has been the long‒held goal of the Human Genome Project, but with little success. Conversely, the biological properties of the mitochondrion coupled with the relative simplicity of the mitochondrial genome give this organelle extraordinary functionality as a biosensor and places the field of mitochondrial genomics in a position of strategic advantage to launch...
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