Clinical and ethical implications of mitochondrial gene transfer

Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-7

  Mitalipov, Shoukhrat ^a   Wolf, Don P ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technologies; mtDNA mutations

Indexed keywords

EXTRACHROMOSOMAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

BLASTOCYST; CELL RESPIRATION; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CYTOPLASM; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENERGY YIELD; ETHICS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC DISORDER; GERM LINE GENE THERAPY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; MEIOTIC SPINDLE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE DISORDER; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OOCYTE; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; POINT MUTATION; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; ZYGOTE;

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES; MTDNA MUTATIONS;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC THERAPY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUTATION; NUCLEAR TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; OOCYTES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890939116     PISSN: 10432760     EISSN: 18793061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2013.09.001     Document Type: Note

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