Frequency and Pattern of Heteroplasmy in the Complete Human Mitochondrial Genome

Amanda Ramos; Cristina Santos; Ligia Mateiu; Maria del Mar Gonzalez; Luis Alvarez; Luisa Azevedo; António Amorim; Maria Pilar Aluja

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0074636

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Frequency and Pattern of Heteroplasmy in the Complete Human Mitochondrial Genome

Amanda Ramos ,

* E-mail: amanda.ramos.reche@gmail.com (AR); cristina.santos@uab.cat (CS)

Affiliation Unitat d’Antropologia Biològica, Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Cristina Santos ,

* E-mail: amanda.ramos.reche@gmail.com (AR); cristina.santos@uab.cat (CS)

Affiliation Unitat d’Antropologia Biològica, Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Ligia Mateiu,

Affiliation Laboratory of Reproductive Genomics, Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Maria del Mar Gonzalez,

Affiliation Unitat d’Antropologia Biològica, Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Luis Alvarez,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Luisa Azevedo,

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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António Amorim,

Affiliations Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Maria Pilar Aluja

Affiliation Unitat d’Antropologia Biològica, Departament de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal i Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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Frequency and Pattern of Heteroplasmy in the Complete Human Mitochondrial Genome

Amanda Ramos,
Cristina Santos,
Ligia Mateiu,
Maria del Mar Gonzalez,
Luis Alvarez,
Luisa Azevedo,
António Amorim,
Maria Pilar Aluja

Published: October 2, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074636

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