The authors note that there are only a few documented cases in which paternal mitochondrial DNA might have been found in human adults. One paper describes a 28-year-old man had trouble breathing ...

suspects of crimes and in paternity testing. It's also the one used to identify the remains of victims of the September 11th attacks. The other approach analyzes mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA.

Qinghua Zhou of the University of Colorado and colleagues examined the C. elegans cells using electron microscopy and tomography, finding that the paternal mitochondria started to self-destruct even ...

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA): This test traces your maternal ... Y-chromosome DNA (Y-DNA): Y-DNA tests trace paternal lineage, as the Y chromosome is passed from father to son. It’s a precise ...

In the past 13 years, more than 100 point mutations and innumerable rearrangements of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been associated with human mitochondrial disease. In the past five years ...

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.