Deleterious in late life mitochondrial alleles and aging: secrets of Japanese centenarians Alina Mikhailova, Center for Mitochondrial Functional Genomics, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia. Viktor Shamansky Center for Mitochondrial Functional Genomics, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia. Georgii A. Bazykin , Center for Life Sciences, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo, Russia; Sector of Molecular Evolution, Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Ilia Mazunin , Center for Mitochondrial Functional Genomics, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia. Konstantin Gunbin , Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia. Center for Mitochondrial Functional Genomics, Immanuel Kant Federal Baltic University, Kaliningrad, Russia. Wolfram Kunz , Division of Neurochemistry, Department of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research, University Bonn Medical Center and Life & Brain Center, University Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25 53105 Bonn. Alexandre Reymond, University of Lausanne, Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne, Switzerland. Masashi Tanaka , Department for Health and Longevity Research, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, 1-23-1 Toyama, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8636, Japan; Department of Neurology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8421, Japan; Department of Clinical Laboratory, IMS Miyoshi General Hospital, 974-3, Fujikubo, Miyoshi-machi, Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, 354-0041 Japan. Konstantin Khrapko , Northeastern University, Boston MA, USA Konstantin Popadin University of Lausanne, Center for Integrative Genomics, Lausanne, Switzerland. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland. Center for Mitochondrial Functional Genomics, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia. 1 certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not this version posted April 15, 2019. . https://doi.org/10.1101/603282 doi: bioRxiv preprint