Skip to main content
Fig. 1 | BMC Biology

Fig. 1

From: Secondary structure of the human mitochondrial genome affects formation of deletions

Fig. 1

Potential secondary structures formed by a single-stranded parental heavy chain during mtDNA replication. The lower panel shows that direct repeats, marked by black arrows, have different chances of being realized into deletions as a function of a spatial structure. The close spatial proximity of repeats (bold dotted lines) increases the probability of deletion formation, while for repeats that are spatially separated by a greater distance, this probability is decreased (thin dotted line)

Back to article page