A comprehensive collection of annotations to interpret sequence variation in human mitochondrial transfer RNAs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The abundance of biological data characterizing the genomics era is contributing to a comprehensive understanding of human mitochondrial genetics. Nevertheless, many aspects are still unclear, specifically about the variability of the 22 human mitochondrial transfer RNA (tRNA) genes and their involvement in diseases. The complex enrichment and isolation of tRNAs in vitro leads to an incomplete knowledge of their post-transcriptional modifications and three-dimensional folding, essential for correct tRNA functioning. An accurate annotation of mitochondrial tRNA variants would be definitely useful and appreciated by mitochondrial researchers and clinicians since the most of bioinformatics tools for variant annotation and prioritization available so far cannot shed light on

SUBMITTER: Diroma MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5123245 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature