Article
Lack of paternal inheritance of muscle mitochondrial DNA in sporadic mitochondrial myopathies.
Annals of neurology - 1 Oct 2003
Filosto Massimiliano, Mancuso Michelangelo, Vives-Bauza Cristofol, Vilà Maya R, Shanske Sara, Hirano Michio, Andreu Antoni L, DiMauro Salvatore
Abstract excerpt
In 2002, paternal inheritance of muscle mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was reported in a patient with exercise intolerance and a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutation restricted to skeletal muscle. To evaluate whether paternal inheritance is a common phenomenon, we studied 10 sporadic patients with skele...
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