Beyond copy number: The regulatory architecture of mitochondrial DNA gene expression
Parisa Riahi, Sharwary Raghupathy, Bryan Le, Sol Taylor-Brill, D N Taylor, Rajiv C. McCoy, Shweta Ramdas, Arslan A. Zaidi
The paper investigates the relationship between mtDNA copy number and gene expression, finding they are largely decoupled and that mtDNA accessibility, not copy number, better explains expression variation.
bioRxiv · May 30, 2026 · PreprintGenomics