Mutation Screening in the Mitochondrial D-Loop Region of Tumoral and Non-tumoral Breast Cancer in Iranian Patients

The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations in mitochondrial coding and non coding regions seem to be important in carcinogenesis. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate coding region (mt-tRNAPhe and tRNAPro) and non-coding sequence, mitochondrial displacement loop (mtDNA D-loop), in the cancerou...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mansour Heidari, Samira Saee-Rad, Kazem Zendehdel, Reza Raoofian, Ramesh Omranipour, Cyrus Azimi, Babak Rahmani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012-07-01
Series:Acta Medica Iranica
Subjects:
Online Access:http://journals.tums.ac.ir/PdfMed.aspx?pdf_med=/upload_files/pdf/21698.pdf&manuscript_id=21698