MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES - GENOTYPE VERSUS PHENOTYPE

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WALLACE, DC
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[1] Department of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Emory University Medical School, Atlanta, GA 30322
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10.1016/0168-9525(93)90207-X
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Q3 [遗传学];
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071007 ; 090102 ;
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Recently, a variety of degenerative diseases have been attributed to mutations in mitochondrial DNA. Even though these mutations are inherited and present throughout the body, they frequently cause late-onset, tissue-specific disease. This may be explained by a combination of the tissue-specific accumulation of somatic mtDNA mutations with age and the variation between tissues in the expression of nuclear genes that encode mitochondrial functions.
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