humans who lived elsewhere in the world at the time of mitochondrial Eve were completely replaced ... by recent studies using more sensitive DNA markers (Templeton, 1997). Clearly, far more ...

A new collaborative study from Karolinska Institutet published in Science Advances shows that the levels of mitochondrial DNA ...

What happens to your cells when this DNA mutates? Similar to the nuclear genome, the mitochondrial genome is built of double-stranded DNA, and it encodes genes (Figure 2). However, the ...

Geneticists looking inside the nuclear genome for mutations that contribute to disease have long relied on a principal known ...

Thomas Hurd, associate professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, will talk about mtDNA degradation at 12:55 p.m. Wednesday in Bell Engineering 2267.

which are defined by the presence of a characteristic cluster of tightly linked mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms, would be associated with elite Japanese athlete status. To examine this hypothesis, the ...