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Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA
22 Aug 2002
Abstract excerpt
This report describes a 28-year-old man with lifelong exercise intolerance. Evaluation revealed a mitochondrial myopathy due to a novel 2-bp mitochondrial DNA deletion in the ND2 gene, which codes for a subunit of enzyme complex I of the mitochondrial respiratory chain. Studies of the patient and his immediate family members revealed that the abnormal mitochondrial DNA was paternal in origin and accounted for 90...
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