GENETICS. Mitochondrial-nuclear DNA mismatch matters.

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Department of Pathology, Division of Molecular and Cellular Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA. Center for Free Radical Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA.

Published: September 2015

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