Assessing Mitochondrial DNA Variation and Copy Number in Lymphocytes of ~2,000 Sardinians Using Tailored Sequencing Analysis Tools.
DNA sequencing identifies common and rare genetic variants for association studies, but studies typically focus on variants in nuclear DNA and ignore the mitochondrial genome. In fact, analyzing variants in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences presents special problems, which we resolve here with a g...
Main Authors: | Jun Ding, Carlo Sidore, Thomas J Butler, Mary Kate Wing, Yong Qian, Osorio Meirelles, Fabio Busonero, Lam C Tsoi, Andrea Maschio, Andrea Angius, Hyun Min Kang, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Francesco Cucca, Gonçalo R Abecasis, David Schlessinger |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2015-07-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4501845?pdf=render |
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