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Parkin overexpression selects against a deleterious mtDNA mutation in heteroplasmic cybrid cells.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Jun 2010
Suen Der-Fen, Narendra Derek P, Tanaka Atsushi, Manfredi Giovanni, Youle Richard J
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Mitochondrial genomes with deleterious mutations can replicate in cells along with wild-type genomes in a state of heteroplasmy, and are a cause of severe inherited syndromes, such as mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke (MELAS), neuropathy, ataxia, retinitis pigmen...
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