| Literature DB >> 24988456 |
Don P Wolf1, Shoukhrat Mitalipov2.
Abstract
Mitochondrial DNA diseases are relatively common, sometimes devastating, and transmitted exclusively through the egg to children of carrier mothers. A study in Cell by Wang et al. (2014) adds the exciting possibility of a new therapy for preventing mitochondrial disease transmission predicated on the use of polar body genomes in mice.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24988456 PMCID: PMC4095871 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2014.06.012
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cell Metab ISSN: 1550-4131 Impact factor: 27.287