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Novel reproductive technologies to prevent mitochondrial disease.
Human reproduction update - 1 Sept 2017
Craven Lyndsey, Tang Mao-Xing, Gorman Gráinne S, De Sutter Petra, Heindryckx Björn
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The use of nuclear transfer (NT) has been proposed as a novel reproductive treatment to overcome the transmission of maternally-inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations. Pathogenic mutations in mtDNA can cause a wide-spectrum of life-limiting disorders, collectively known as mtDNA disease, for which there are currently few effective treatments and no known cures. The many unique features of mtDNA...
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