Number of base pairs in human mitochondrial genome

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Value 16569 bp
Organism Human Homo sapiens
Reference Anderson S, Bankier AT, Barrell BG, de Bruijn MH, Coulson AR, Drouin J, Eperon IC, Nierlich DP, Roe BA, Sanger F, Schreier PH, Smith AJ, Staden R, Young IG. Sequence and organization of the human mitochondrial genome. Nature. 1981 Apr 9 290(5806):457-65. p. 457PubMed ID7219534
Comments The DNA sequence is shown in Fig. 1, pp. 459-461. For 37 mitochondrial genes of which 13 are protein coding, 22 tRNA and 2 rRNA genes, see Chan 2006 PMID 16814712 p.1241 left column 2nd paragraph
Entered by stirling
ID 105470