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Zen and the art of mitochondrial DNA maintenance.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Mar 2010
Holt Ian J
Abstract excerpt
Because mitochondrial genes encode proteins essential for aerobic ATP production, mitochondrial DNA defects can cause an energy crisis. These defects fall into two broad categories: primary mutations in mitochondrial DNA and mutations in nuclear genes, whose protein products are involved in mitoc...
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