Therapy for mitochondrial genetic disease: Are we at the thin end of the wedge?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 147-149

  Wong, Chi C ^a   Johnson, Martin H ^a  

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DAUGHTER CELL; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA MODIFICATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE MUTATION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOSAICISM; NUCLEAR GENOME EDITING; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; UNITED KINGDOM; ZYGOTE; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES;

CELL NUCLEUS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC THERAPY; GENOME, HUMAN; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES;

EID: 84905511029     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2014.06.003     Document Type: Editorial

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