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Mitochondrial DNA aberrations of bone marrow cells from patients with aplastic anemia.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Kim, Hye-Ran Shin, Myung-Geun Kim, Mi-Ji Kim, Hyeoung-Joon Shin, Jong-Hee Suh, Soon-Pal Ryang, Dong-Wook |
| Copyright Year | 2008 |
| Abstract | This study was undertaken primarily to test the hypothesis that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations may be associated with aplastic anemia. Complete mtDNA nucleotide sequence was analyzed in nine and eight bone marrow specimens from Korean patients with aplastic anemia and healthy individuals, respectively. We found a large number of polymorphisms as well as apparent new mutations in both patients and controls throughout the entire mtDNA genome; 12 mutations harbored amino acid changes in patients and none of the mutations in controls produced amino acid changes. There were heteroplasmic mutations and more nonsynonymous mtDNA changes observed in patients, so the mean number of mtDNA aberrations of bone marrow cells showed statistically significant difference overall between patients (mean=25.6) and controls (mean=12.8) (p=0.019). Our data may support an association of mtDNA aberrations with aplastic anemia. |
| ISSN | 10118934 |
| Volume Number | 23 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC2610644 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| PubMed reference number | 19119453 |
| Journal | Journal of Korean Medical Science [J. Korean Med. Sci] |
| e-ISSN | 15986357 |
| DOI | 10.3346/jkms.2008.23.6.1062 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences |
| Publisher Date | 2008-12-24 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Copyright © 2008 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences |
| Subject Keyword | Anemia, Aplastic DNA, Mitochondrial Mutation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Medicine |