Mitochondrial DNA mutations and depletion in pediatric medicine.

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Mitochondrial disorders are a group of diseases traditionally ascribed to defects of the respiratory chain, which is the only metabolic pathway in the cell that is under the control of the two separate genetic systems, the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) and the nuclear genome (nDNA). Therefore the genetic classification of the primary mitochondrial diseases distinguishes disorders due to mutations in mtDNA, which...

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