Mitochondrial DNA mutations in human disease
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Mitochondrial DNA mutations in human disease.
The small, maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has turned out to be a Pandora's box of pathogenic mutations: 13 years into the era of "molecular mitochondrial medicine," more than 100 pathogenic point mutations and innumerable rearrangements have been associated with a striking variety of multisystemic as well as tissue-specific human diseases. After reviewing the principles of mitoc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature Reviews Genetics
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1471-0056,1471-0064
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1606