Response to: ‘when man got his mtDNA deletions?’
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Sean D. Taylor, Jesse J. Salk and Jason H. Bielas Translational Research Program, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave, Seattle, WA 98109, USA Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195, USA Department of Pathology, University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 NE Pacific St, Seattle, WA 98195, USA Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
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When man got his mtDNA deletions?
Somatic mtDNA mutations and deletions in particular are known to clonally expand within cells, eventually reaching detrimental intracellular concentrations. The possibility that clonal expansion is a slow process taking a lifetime had prompted an idea that founder mutations of mutant clones that cause mitochondrial dysfunction in the aged tissue might have originated early in life. If, converse...
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