highly significantp≤0.002
SM exhibited a highly significant negative correlation between mtCN and the total number of heteroplasmies for all three methods (r = -0.27 to -0.31, all p≤0.002; Fig 4 and S4 Table ).
SM exhibited a highly significant negative correlation between mtCN and the total number of heteroplasmies for all three methods (r = -0.27 to -0.31, all p≤0.002; Fig 4 and S4 Table ).
MtCN was best explained by age (p<0.05), although the number of heteroplasmies also showed a slight correlation with mtCN that was borderline significant for shotgun sequencing data (p = 0.049, Fig 4 ).