The garden dormouse ( Eliomys quercinus ), a native European rodent species, has disappeared from large parts of central and eastern Europe and is considered extinct in some countries. We reviewed national red lists and the available information on the occurrence and distribution of the species in all countries where it was previously reported. The garden dormouse is considered regionally extinct in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, L...

Mitochondrial DNA copy number (mtDNA-CN) measured from blood specimens is a minimally invasive marker of mitochondrial function that exhibits both inter-individual and intercellular variation. To identify genes involved in regulating mitochondrial function, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 465,809 White individuals from the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium a...