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Disease genes in yeast

Jonathan B Weitzman

Genome Biology 2002, 3:spotlight-20020724-01 doi:10.1186/gb-spotlight-20020724-01

Published: 24 July 2002

Screening the yeast deletion collection for mutants with altered growth characteristics identifies a large number of genes linked to mitochondrial function and perhaps to human mitochondrial diseases.