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Gene therapy of the other genome: the challenges of treating mitochondrial DNA defects.
Pharmaceutical research - 1 Feb 2007
D'Souza Gerard G M, Boddapati Sarathi V, Weissig Volkmar
Abstract excerpt
Human mitochondrial DNA is a 16.5 kb circular DNA molecule located inside the mitochondrial matrix. Although accounting for only about 1% of total cellular DNA, defects in mitochondrial DNA have been found to have major effects on human health. A single mtDNA mutation may cause a bewildering variety of clinical symptoms mainly involving the neuromuscular system at any age of onset. Despite significant advances in...
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