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BOSNIAN JOURNAL OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 187-192Publisher
ASSOC BASIC MEDICAL SCI FEDERATION BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA SARAJEVO
DOI: 10.17305/bjbms.2012.2480
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mtDNA 4977bp deletion; hair; ageing; mtDNA mutation
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- Science & Research Program of Guangdong Province [2006B35502007]
- Guangdong Province Science Foundation [04105351]
- Sun Yat-Sen University
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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is believed to be particularly susceptible to oxidative damage during aging, resulting in mtDNA point mutations, duplications, and deletions. Although mtDNA deletions have been reported in various human tissues, e.g., the brain, heart, and skeletal muscle, little is known about the occurrence in hair. Therefore, we screened for the presence of mtDNA 13162 bp, 10422 bp, 2663 bp, 7436 bp, 4989 bp, and 4977 bp deletions in 90 hair samples from subjects aged 5 days to 91 years by using polymerase chain reaction (FCR) and investigated the deletion load by TaqMan probe-based real-time PCR. We detected the mtDNA 4977 bp deletion in hair samples, but none of the other deletions that were screened for. The proportion of mtDNA 4977 deletion carriers was 98.3% (89/90) and the deletion loads increased from 0 to 1.436 +/- 0.2086% of the total mtDNA with. an exponential increase with age (r = 0.677, p < 0.05). These results suggest that mtDNA 4977 bp deletion is a common phenomenon in hair and increases with age. These findings expand our understanding of the tissue-specific distribution of mtDNA deletions. (C) 2012 Association of Basic Medical Sciences of FBIH. All rights reserved
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