Wei Qu, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., is a Senior Biologist with the Mechanistic Toxicology Branch (MTB), Division of Translational Toxicology (DTT) of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Niehs).
Ontology is the philosophical study of being. It is traditionally understood as the subdiscipline of metaphysics focused on the most general features of reality.
We analyzed 375 base pairs (bp) of the first hypervariable region (HVS-I) of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region and intergenic COII/tRNA Lys 9-bp deletion from 47 Karkar Islanders (north coast of Papua New Guinea) belonging to the…