Functional annotation of introns in mitochondrial genome – a brief review

Abstract

The present study is to decipher the non-coding regions present in mitochondrial genomes that cause diseases in humans and predict their functional roles through comparative genomics approach followed by functional annotation of these segments.

• Comparative genomics
• functional annotation
• mitochondria
• non-coding regions

Declaration of interest

The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper. The authors are grateful to the DBT Bioinformatics Centre, Bharathiar University for providing lab facilities during the study and also to University Grants Commission, Government of India for financial support.