Mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase deficiency

M Rak, P Bénit, D Chrétien, J Bouchereau… - Clinical …, 2016 - portlandpress.com
As with other mitochondrial respiratory chain components, marked clinical and genetic
heterogeneity is observed in patients with a cytochrome c oxidase deficiency. This …

Genetics of coronary artery disease

R Roberts - Circulation research, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
There is almost no data on the genetics of acute coronary syndromes, so this review
discusses primarily the 50 genetic risk variants associated with coronary artery disease that …

Origins and functional consequences of somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in human cancer

YS Ju, LB Alexandrov, M Gerstung, I Martincorena… - elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Recent sequencing studies have extensively explored the somatic alterations present in the
nuclear genomes of cancers. Although mitochondria control energy metabolism and …

Mitochondrial DNA variants modulate N-formylmethionine, proteostasis and risk of late-onset human diseases

N Cai, A Gomez-Duran, E Yonova-Doing, K Kundu… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants influence the risk of late-onset human diseases, but the
reasons for this are poorly understood. Undertaking a hypothesis-free analysis of 5,689 …

The metazoan landscape of mitochondrial DNA gene order and content is shaped by selection and affects mitochondrial transcription

N Shtolz, D Mishmar - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) harbors essential genes in most metazoans, yet the regulatory
impact of the multiple evolutionary mtDNA rearrangements has been overlooked. Here, by …

The mitochondrial genome–on selective constraints and signatures at the organism, cell, and single mitochondrion levels

N Shtolz, D Mishmar - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Natural selection acts on the phenotype. Therefore, many mistakenly expect to observe its
signatures only in the organism, while overlooking its impact on tissues, cells and …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative analysis of codon usage of mitochondrial genomes provides evolutionary insights into reptiles

P Montana-Lozano, SA Balaguera-Reina… - Gene, 2023 - Elsevier
Current available information on reptile genomes provides great potential for the study of
unique adaptations from a genomic perspective. We compared differences in base …

Mito-nuclear co-evolution: the positive and negative sides of functional ancient mutations

L Levin, A Blumberg, G Barshad, D Mishmar - Frontiers in genetics, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Most cell functions are carried out by interacting factors, thus underlying the functional
importance of genetic interactions between genes, termed epistasis. Epistasis could be …

Evolutionary perspectives on the links between mitochondrial genotype and disease phenotype

DK Dowling - Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Disorders of the mitochondrial respiratory chain are heterogeneous in their
symptoms and underlying genetics. Simple links between candidate mutations and …

NUMT confounding biases mitochondrial heteroplasmy calls in favor of the reference allele

H Maude, M Davidson, N Charitakis, L Diaz… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Homology between mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and nuclear DNA of mitochondrial origin
(nuMTs) causes confounding when aligning short sequence reads to the reference human …