The mitochondrial genome can help researchers map ancestry and better understand the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases.

Mitochondrial diseases affect approximately 1 in 5,000 people worldwide, causing debilitating symptoms ranging from muscle ...

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

The DNA within mitochondria needs to be replicated as new mitochondria are made. Mitochondrial DNA must also be repaired after factors like oxidative stress damage it. However, around 300 ...

The study of mitochondrial DNA has enabled scientists to trace a family tree that connects all of humanity to a single female ancestor who lived 200,000 years ago in present-day Botswana.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies belong to a previously unknown human lineage that remained isolated in North Africa for thousands of years, a new study finds. The mummies are the remains of women who ...

It was our project with colleagues at the Department of Human and Medical Genetics ... this new [as of yet unpublished] paper written by our student, which is on mitochondrial DNA. So, those Chernobyl ...

The following is a summary of “Mitochondrial DNA copy number variation in asthma risk, severity, and exacerbations,” ...

Previously, a study in 2019 examined the mitochondrial DNA of these bodies, but the information obtained ... "By shedding light on the Sahara's deep past, we aim to increase our knowledge of human ...