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> Now, a team of Liggins Institute researchers have shown for the first time that human mitochondrial DNA leaves the mitochondria, travels into the host cell nucleus and connects to specific genes.
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> "We found evidence that mitochondria DNA and nuclear DNA 'talk to each other', and these interactions aren't random," says lead researcher Dr Justin O'Sullivan, a molecular geneticist at the University of Auckland research institute.
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> The findings give weight to the idea that mitochondria do much more than supply energy and regulate a cell's metabolism – the processes that keep it alive.

Source: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-08-avenue-common-diseases.html

ARTICLE

Doynova, M.D., et al. 2016. "Interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear DNA in mammalian cells are non-random." Mitochondrion. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mito.2016.08.003