Article
Mitochondrial DNA and disease.
Annals of medicine - 1 Jun 1997
Suomalainen A
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial diseases are a group of disorders characterized by morphological or functional defects of the mitochondria, the organelles producing most of our cellular energy. As the only extranuclear site carrying genetic information, the mitochondria add an important chapter into the inheritanc...
Topics
- Cardiomyopathies
- Chromosome Deletion
- DNA Transposable Elements
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
- Genetic Diseases, Inborn
- Humans
- MELAS Syndrome
- Mitochondrial Myopathies
- Phenotype
- Point Mutation