The Challenges of Mitochondrial Replacement

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Chinnery, Patrick F ^a   Craven, Lyndsey ^a   Mitalipov, Shoukhrat ^b   Stewart, James B ^c   Herbert, Mary ^a,d   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; INSULIN GENE ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ISL-1; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INTERACTIONS WITH DNA; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MALE INFERTILITY; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DISORDER; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL REPLACEMENT; MOLECULAR THERAPY; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; FOREBRAIN; METABOLISM; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; HUMANS; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; PROSENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84901332340     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004315     Document Type: Article

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