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8482 - 13460
Homo sapiens - Deletions

Deletion length: 4977 bp

Does not remove any origin of replication
Inside the major arc



Breakpoint flanking sequences
more information in Documentation - Flanking regions


8482
5fl vs 3del
Homology length: 13 bp

Deleted region


13460
ACCACCTACCTCCCTCACCA 5'Breakpoint AAGCCCATAAAAATAAAAAA (...) CACTTCAACCTCCCTCACCA 3'Breakpoint TTGGCAGCCTAGCATTAGCA
5del vs 3del
Homology length: 1 bp

ACCACCTACCTCCCTCACCA 5'Breakpoint AAGCCCATAAAAATAAAAAA (...) CACTTCAACCTCCCTCACCA 3'Breakpoint TTGGCAGCCTAGCATTAGCA




Two-dimensional scatterplot showing the location of the selected deletion (red diamond) versus the full dataset (grey dots). Each point represents an mtDNA rearrangement with the 5’ breakpoint on the x-axis and the 3’ breakpoint on the y-axis.

Circular mtDNA plot specifying the location of the deleted region (black bar).
Length distribution of the deleted region in the selected deletion (red bar) versus the full dataset (grey bars) .The cases were grouped 100-nt windows.
Present in:
KSS; PEO; PS
ad/ar-PEO; ad/ar-PEO (POLGmut)
Aged tissues; Unfertilized oocytes; Spermatozoa; Postmenopausal ovaries; Embryos; Cumullus cells; Controls
Parkinson Disease
Inclusion body myopathy (ad); Inclusion body myositis
Thyroid, Hepatic, Warthin's, Goiters tumors; Sporadic breast cancer and benign breast diseases
Reye-like; Alzheimer Disease; Huntington's Disease; Adrenal failure; Hemodialysis patients; Cyclic vomiting syndrome; Hearts exposed to doxorubicin; Pancytopenia; Microvesicular stetosis; Presbiacusis; Cerebral folate deficiency; Atrial fibrillation; Ataxia telangiectasia; Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Toni-Debré-Fanconi syndrome; Chronic Kidney Disease; Polypodium treated patients; Ptosis, ophthalmoparesis; facial paresis; ophthalmoplesia; retinopathy; ataxia cerebellum syndrome; myopathy; tetraparesis; Skeletal Muscle Symptoms; multiorgan involvement; multiple deletion patient; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; Sensorineural Hearing Loss; MELAS; MERRF; Diabetes mellitus and deafness; Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy; Mitochondrial myopathy; COX deficiency; LS; Isolated mitochondrial myopathy; Sun-exposed skin; Skeletal muscle biopsies and fibroblasts of CMT2A patients; Hippocampal tissue of patients with mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) and hippocampal sclerosis (HS)

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