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Determining the Likelihood of Variant Pathogenicity Using Amino Acid-level Signal-to-Noise Analysis of Genetic Variation
Published on: January 16, 2019
Low Heteroplasmy Rates of Pathogenic mtDNA Variants Do Not Predict Aging
Josef Finsterer1, Fulvio A Scorza2, Carla A Scorza2
1Neurological Department, Krankenanstalt Rudolfstiftung, Vienna, Austria.
No abstract available in PubMed .
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