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MITOCHONDRION
Volume 2, Issue 6, Pages 401-414Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S1567-7249(03)00028-X
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heteroplasmy; human; inheritance; mitochondrial DNA; multigenerational; tissue differences
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The transmission of a C16,291C/T heteroplasmy in the HV1 region of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was examined in buccal cells from 13 maternally-related individuals across three generations and in additional tissues (hair, blood, or finger nails) from three members of this family. The ratio of C:T at nucleotide position (np) 16,291 showed wide intra- and intergenerational variation as well as tissue variation within individuals. Our results demonstrate that one or two sequence differences between samples in the mtDNA does not warrant an exclusion. To avoid false exclusions especially when comparing mtDNA from hair samples, we recommend the analysis of as many samples as possible in order to minimize the possibility that the detection of a rare polymorphism in a single sample would be considered an exclusion when it is really a match. The observation that the transmission of a mtDNA heteroplasmy from one individual to her offspring is likely to differ among the first-generation offspring and between that generation and subsequent generations lends further credence to the bottleneck theory of inheritance of human mtDNA. (C) 2003 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. on behalf of Mitochondria Research Society.
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