Joanna L. Elson

Strong Purifying Selection in Transmission of Mammalian Mitochondrial DNA

James B. Stewart, Christoph Freyer, Joanna L. Elson et al. · PLoS Biology · 2008 · 535 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics +13

Reduced-Median-Network Analysis of Complete Mitochondrial DNA Coding-Region Sequences for the Major African, Asian, and European Haplogroups

Corinna Herrnstadt, Joanna L. Elson, Eoin Fahy et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2002 · 534 citations · Full text

Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +17

Clinical Expression of Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy Is Affected by the Mitochondrial DNA–Haplogroup Background

Gavin Hudson, Valério Carelli, Liesbeth Spruijt et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2007 · 356 citations · Full text

Medicine, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +16

Random Intracellular Drift Explains the Clonal Expansion of Mitochondrial DNA Mutations with Age

Joanna L. Elson, David C. Samuels, Douglass M. Turnbull et al. · The American Journal of Human Genetics · 2001 · 346 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics +15

Accumulation of mitochondrial DNA mutations in ageing, cancer, and mitochondrial disease: is there a common mechanism?

Patrick F. Chinnery, David C. Samuels, Joanna L. Elson et al. · The Lancet · 2002 · 234 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +13