We describe an automated system for high-resolution profiling of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) based upon multiplexed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) followed by desolvation and direct analysis ...

The mitochondrial genome has long been implicated in age-related disease, but no studies have examined its role in the relationship of long-term fine particle (PM2.5) exposure and DNA methylation age ...

A new genetic study has determined that dogs buried in the Viking Age cemetery of Luistari in Eura, southwestern Finland, ...

“Conflict” seems to imply war and genocide. If disease killed them, it would be very odd for another group to move into their ...

These cells came from a person with Gitelman-like syndrome, a disorder linked to mitochondrial dysfunction. The correction ...

The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs ...

In a quiet corner of eastern China, nestled between the Tai-Yi Mountains and the Bohai Sea, a discovery has upended ...

Mitochondrial DNA: a promising tool for characterising the population of the Tiúba stingless bee, Melipona fasciculata (Apidae, Meliponini) DNA mitocondrial: uma ferramenta promissora para ...

Origins Mysterious Ancient Humans Now Have a Face Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.

Nucleotide sequences of the D-loop region of human mitochondrial DNA from four Yunnan nationalities, Dai, Wa, Lahu, and Tibetan, were analyzed. Based on a comparison of 563-bp sequences in 99 ...

Nucleotide sequences of the D-loop region of human mitochondrial DNA from six small ethnic groups of Thailand i.e., Hill tribes (Lisu and Mussur), Phuthai, Lao Song, Chong, and aboriginal Sakai ...

About 45,000 years ago, something unusual happened in Ice Age Europe. A new wave of modern humans wandered in from the southeast and found a continent already home to a very different kind of human: ...