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SUBMITTER: Hwang BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2706008 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hwang Bor-Jang BJ Kuttamperoor Francis F Wu Julia J Steinberg Mark L ML
Gene 20090402 1-2
We show that a single low-dose exposure of human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEK) to an FS20 light source in vitro can induce the formation of mitochondrial DNA deletions in a PCR detection assay. We used primer sets specifically designed to exclude amplification of segments containing the common deletion, but which could detect possibly lower abundance deletions generated within the same region of the mitochondrial genome. We characterized eight novel deletions of which six were generated from cu ...[more]