Segregation of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in human oocytes and in animal models of mtDNA disease: Clinical implications

Reproduction

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 751-755

  Poulton, Joanna ^a   Marchington, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ATAXIA; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN GENETICS; LEIGH DISEASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DISORDER; MOUSE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036078149     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.0.1230751     Document Type: Review

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