Table 2.

Chimeric mtRNA frequency in human aging muscle samples

Database
Experimental group (n)Average base pairs sequencedChimeric mtRNA FFPMMT-CO1, 2, 3-MT-CYB chimeric mtRNA FFPM
Human aging muscle

(GSE157585)
1.4 ± 0.03 × 1010
20–30 years old (21)40.4 ± 4.02a1.16 ± 0.12b
65–91 years old (50)71.5 ± 5.11a2.82 ± 0.24b

[i] (n) Number of human subjects. Data shown are mean ± SEM.

[ii] aP-value = 6.4 × 10−6 using Welch's two-sample t-test.

[iii] bP-value = 7.3 × 10−9 using Welch's two-sample t-test.