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Mitochondrial disorders.
Molecular human reproduction - 1 Feb 1997
Zeviani M, Antozzi C
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondria, the organelles devoted to energy production, have unique genetic features. They possess their own genome encoding several subunits of the respiratory chain, the majority of which are encoded by nuclear DNA, as well as factors involved in replication, transcription and translation of mitochondrial DNA. In the past few years, molecular lesions of mitochondrial DNA have been reported with increasing...
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