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Maternal inheritance of deleted mitochondrial DNA in a family with mitochondrial myopathy.

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It is reported that the mutant mtDNA is responsible for the maternal inheritance of a human disease, and both the start and the end of deletion were different between them, implying a novel mode of inheritance.
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This article is published in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.The article was published on 1988-08-15. It has received 135 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mitochondrial myopathy & Mitochondrial DNA.

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Mitochondrial dna mutations as an important contributor to ageing and degenerative diseases

TL;DR: It is proposed that the accumulation of mitochondrial mutations and the subsequent cytoplasmic segregation of these mutations during life is an important contributor both to the ageing process and to several human degenerative diseases.
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Maternally transmitted diabetes and deafness associated with a 10.4 kb mitochondrial DNA deletion.

TL;DR: A pedigree with maternally transmitted DM and deafness for mitochondrial DNA mutations was tested and a 10.4 kilobase mtDNA deletion was discovered, demonstrating that DM can be caused by mtDNA mutations and suggests that some of the heterogeneity of this disease results from the novel features of mtDNA genetics.
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An autosomal dominant disorder with multiple deletions of mitochondrial DNA starting at the D-loop region.

TL;DR: Sequence analysis of mutant mtDNAs showed that all the deletions start within a 12-nucleotide stretch at the 5′ end of the D-loop region, a site of active communication between the nucleus and the mtDNA, indicating that a mutation of a nuclear-coded protein can destroy the integrity of the mitochondrial genome in a specific, heritable way.
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Spontaneous Kearns-Sayre/chronic external ophthalmoplegia plus syndrome associated with a mitochondrial DNA deletion: a slip-replication model and metabolic therapy

TL;DR: The muscle mitochondria of a patient with Kearns-Sayre/chronic external ophthalmoplegia plus syndrome were found to be completely deficient in respiratory complex I activity and partially deficient in complex IV and V activities as mentioned in this paper.
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Guidelines for the study of familial dilated cardiomyopathies

TL;DR: This research presents a novel and scalable approach to cardiology called “SmartCardiology,” which combines real-time, mobile, and 3D image analysis of the response of the autonomic nervous system to foreign substances.
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Sequence and organization of the human mitochondrial genome

TL;DR: The complete sequence of the 16,569-base pair human mitochondrial genome is presented and shows extreme economy in that the genes have none or only a few noncoding bases between them, and in many cases the termination codons are not coded in the DNA but are created post-transcriptionally by polyadenylation of the mRNAs.
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An electron-transport system associated with the outer membrane of liver mitochondria. A biochemical and morphological study.

TL;DR: Experiments with tritiated NADH are described which demonstrate that this "external" pathway of NADH oxidation resembles stereochemically the NADH-cytochrome c reductase system of liver microsomes, and differs from the respiratory chain-linked NADH dehydrogenase.
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Deletions of muscle mitochondrial DNA in patients with mitochondrial myopathies

TL;DR: Observations demonstrate that mtDNA heteroplasmy can occur in man and that human disease may be associated with defects of the mitochondrial genome.
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A microspectrophotometric method for the determination of cytochrome oxidase.

TL;DR: A microadaptation enables the measurement of the cytochrome oxidase content of as little as 4 y (wet weight) of an active tissue such as heart.
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