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Mitochondrial mutations in human cancer: Curation of translation.
RNA biology - 2 Jan 2018
Caudron-Herger Maϊwen, Diederichs Sven
Abstract excerpt
As a genetic disease, cancer is caused by the activation of oncogenes and the inhibition of tumor suppressor genes via genetic and epigenetic mechanisms. Given the important role of energy metabolism in tumors, we analyzed the cancer-derived mutations occurring in the DNA of the mitochondrion. Mutations in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) compared to nuclear DNA are 62% decreased relative to the coding length per...
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