Nuclear transfer of mitochondrial DNA in colon and rectal cancer

(University of Alabama at Birmingham) Patients with colon and rectal cancer have somatic insertions of mitochondrial DNA into the nuclear genomes of the cancer cells, UAB researchers report in the journal Genome Medicine. In a companion paper in Analytical Biochemistry, researchers describe a molecular tool to rapidly detect and analyze insertion of mitochondrial DNA into the genomes of cells.
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