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Insight into mammalian mitochondrial DNA segregation.
Annals of medicine - 1 Mar 2013
Jokinen Riikka, Battersby Brendan J
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is essential for aerobic energy production in eukaryotic cells, and mutations in this genome can lead to mitochondrial dysfunction. Human mtDNA mutations are typically heteroplasmic, a mix of mutant and wild-type genomes, which can present as a heterogeneous group of disorders ranging in severity from mild to fatal, and commonly affecting highly aerobic tissues such as heart, skeletal...
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