Clinical and molecular studies of mitochondrial disease.
Our knowledge of mitochondrial disorders has expanded enormously through advances in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) research during the last decade. This has also provided information about the complicated genotype-phenotype relationship based on distinct characteristics of mtDNA itself. These include multicopy, vulnerability to the mutation, and cytoplasmic inheritance. There are complications of heteroplasmy, tissue/cell specificity, accumulation of mutations and material inheritance.
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Department of Mental Retardation and Birth Defect Research, National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan. goto@ncnp.gp.jp
D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000473:pathology; D028361:Mitochondrial Diseases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D010641:Phenotype