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COLD SPRING HARBOR PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY
Volume 5, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
COLD SPRING HARBOR LAB PRESS, PUBLICATIONS DEPT
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a021220
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- National Institutes of Health [NS21328, NS070298, AG24373, DK73691]
- Simons Foundation [205844]
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The unorthodox genetics of the mtDNA is providing new perspectives on the etiology of the common complex diseases. The maternally inherited mtDNA codes for essential energy genes, is present in thousands of copies per cell, and has a very high mutation rate. New mtDNA mutations arise among thousands of other mtDNAs. The mechanisms by which these heteroplasmic mtDNA mutations come to predominate in the female germline and somatic tissues is poorly understood, but essential for understanding the clinical variability of a range of diseases. Maternal inheritance and heteroplasmy also pose major challengers for the diagnosis and prevention of mtDNA disease.
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