Heteroplasmy is the presence of a mixture of more than one type of an organellar genome (mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) or plastid DNA) within a cell or individual. It is a factor for the severity of mitochondrial diseases. Since most eukaryotic cells contain many hundreds of mitochondria with hundreds of copies of mtDNA, it is possible and indeed very...
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(from the article `genetic disease, human`) ...adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Severity and even penetrance can vary widely for disorders resulting from mutations in the mitochondrial DNA, ...
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<biology, embryology> The occurrence of a tissue in the wrong place in an organism, as a result of inappropriate cellular differentiation. ... (18 Nov 1997) ...
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(= heteroplasia) The occurrence of a tissue in the wrong place in an organism, as a result of inappropriate cellular differentiation.
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