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Prospect of preimplantation genetic diagnosis for heritable mitochondrial DNA diseases.
Molecular human reproduction - 1 Oct 2003
Dean Nicola L, Battersby Brendan J, Ao Asangla, Gosden Roger G, Tan Seang Lin, Shoubridge Eric A, Molnar Maria Judit
Abstract excerpt
To perform preimplantation genetic diagnosis for women carrying heteroplasmic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations, it is necessary to ensure that the proportion of mutant mtDNA diagnosed in the biopsied cell gives an accurate indication of the mutant load in the remaining embryo. A heteroplasmic...
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