A recent study by Yuan et al., published in Nature Genetics, demonstrates multidimensional molecular alterations in mitochondrial DNA in human cancers and provides an online catalogue of mitochondrial genomes in many cancer types.
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Wei, W., Chinnery, P.F. Cracking the enigma of mitochondrial-DNA variants and cancer. Nat Metab 2, 221–222 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42255-020-0180-2
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