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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-9-5
pubmed:abstractText
Mitochondria play important roles in cellular energy metabolism, free radical generation, and apoptosis. Mitochondrial DNA has been proposed to be involved in carcinogenesis because of its high susceptibility to mutations and limited repair mechanisms in comparison to nuclear DNA. Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer type among women in the world and, although exhaustive research has been done on nuclear DNA changes, several studies describe a variety of mitochondrial DNA alterations present in breast cancer. In this review article, we to provide a summary of the mitochondrial genomic alterations reported in breast cancer and their functional consequences.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1177-9314
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
2
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
199-207
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Review: mitochondrial defects in breast cancer.
pubmed:affiliation
Clinical Genetics Unit, University Clinic of Navarra (CUN), Avda, Pio XII, 36, 31008 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article