Researchers at Kunming Institute of Zoology Target Colon Cancer

2011 OCT 10 -- A new study, "Uncovering the profile of somatic mtDNA mutations in Chinese colorectal cancer patients," is now available. According to the authors of recent research from Kunming, People's Republic of China, "In the past decade, a high incidence of somatic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations has been observed, mostly based on a fraction of the molecule, in various cancerous tissues; nevertheless, some of them were queried due to problems in data quality. Obviously, without a comprehensive understanding of mtDNA mutational profile in the cancerous tissue of a specific patient, it is unlikely to disclose the genuine relationship between somatic mtDNA mutations and...

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