The inheritance of pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease

Volumn 1792, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1097-1102

  Cree, L M ^a   Samuels, D C ^b   Chinnery, P F ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic bottleneck; Inheritance; Mitochondria; mtDNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

BOTTLENECK POPULATION; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC SELECTION; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PEDIGREE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUTATION;

EID: 71849083825     PISSN: 09254439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2009.03.002     Document Type: Review

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