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Stable heteroplasmy at the single-cell level is facilitated by intercellular exchange of mtDNA.
Nucleic acids research - 27 Feb 2015
Jayaprakash Anitha D, Benson Erica K, Gone Swapna, Liang Raymond, Shim Jaehee, Lambertini Luca, Toloue Masoud M, Wigler Mike, Aaronson Stuart A, Sachidanandam Ravi
Abstract excerpt
Eukaryotic cells carry two genomes, nuclear (nDNA) and mitochondrial (mtDNA), which are ostensibly decoupled in their replication, segregation and inheritance. It is increasingly appreciated that heteroplasmy, the occurrence of multiple mtDNA haplotypes in a cell, plays an important biological role, but its features are not well understood. Accurately determining the diversity of mtDNA has been difficult, due to...
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