Mitochondrial diseases

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 715-728

  Graff, Caroline ^a   Bui, The Hung ^a,b   Larsson, Nils Göran ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Fetal Diagnosis Programme and Out Patient Clinics

Author keywords

Genetic counselling; Heteroplasmy; Mitochondrial diseases; Mitochondrial DNA mutations; Nuclear gene mutations; Prenatal diagnosis; Respiratory chain dysfunction

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENOME; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PREGNANCY;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0036778111     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/beog.2002.0315     Document Type: Article

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