The ability of human nuclear DNA to cause false positive low-abundance heteroplasmy calls varies across the mitochondrial genome

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BACKGROUND: Low-abundance mutations in mitochondrial populations (mutations with minor allele frequency ≤ 1%), are associated with cancer, aging, and neurodegenerative disorders. While recent progress in high-throughput sequencing technology has significantly improved the heteroplasmy identification process, the ability of this technology to detect low-abundance mutations can be affected by the presence of...

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