Chalkia D

ORCID: 0000-0003-4780-544X · 1 paper in corpus

2013

Mitochondrial DNA genetics and the heteroplasmy conundrum in evolution and disease.

Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology ·doi:10.1101/cshperspect.a021220

The unorthodox genetics of the mtDNA is providing new perspectives on the etiology of the common "complex" diseases. The maternally inherited mtDNA codes for essential energy genes, is present in thousands of copies per cell, and has a very…