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SUBMITTER: Tranah GJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3998521 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mitochondrion 20110509 6
The role of climate in driving selection of mtDNA as Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa into Eurasia remains controversial. We evaluated the role of mtDNA variation in resting metabolic rate (RMR) and total energy expenditure (TEE) among 294 older, community-dwelling African and European American adults from the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study. Common African haplogroups L0, L2 and L3 had significantly lower RMRs than European haplogroups H, JT and UK with haplogroup L1 RMR being inter ...[more]