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Clinical implications and pathological associations of circulating mitochondrial DNA.
Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) - 1 Jan 2017
Tuboly Eszter, Mcllroy Daniel, Briggs Gabrielle, Lott Natalie, Balogh Zsolt J
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Mitochondria are membrane-enclosed organelles, the energy-producing centers in almost all eukaryotic cells. The evolutionary emergence of mitochondria is a result of the endocytosis of a-proteobacteria. There are several characteristic features which refer to its prokaryotic ancestors including its independent sets of double-stranded mitochondrial DNA, which is uniquely circular in form and contains a significant...
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