Article
Nuclear genetic control of mtDNA copy number and heteroplasmy in humans.
Nature - 1 Aug 2023
Gupta Rahul, Kanai Masahiro, Durham Timothy J, Tsuo Kristin, McCoy Jason G, Kotrys Anna V, Zhou Wei, Chinnery Patrick F, Karczewski Konrad J, Calvo Sarah E, Neale Benjamin M, Mootha Vamsi K
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a maternally inherited, high-copy-number genome required for oxidative phosphorylation1. Heteroplasmy refers to the presence of a mixture of mtDNA alleles in an individual and has been associated with disease and ageing. Mechanisms underlying common variation in human heteroplasmy, and the influence of the nuclear genome on this variation, remain insufficiently explored. Here we...
Topics
- Aged
- Humans
- DNA Copy Number Variations
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Genome-Wide Association Study
- Heteroplasmy
- Mitochondria
- Cell Nucleus
- Alleles
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
