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Gene-Based Therapeutic Approaches. Personalized Medicine: Hope or Hype? Citation: Chial, H. Nature Education 1 1 Did you know that you have a second genome? Small cellular organelles called mitochondria contain their own circular DNA. What happens to your cells when this DNA mutates? Aa Aa Aa. Mitochondrial Anatomy and Physiology. Mitochondrial vs.
Nuclear DNA. Figure 2. Mitochondrial DNA Mutations. Table 1: Estimated mitochondrial dNTP concentrations in rat tissues. Figure Detail. Clinical Manifestations of Mitochondrial Mutations. Classic Mitochondrial Syndromes. Table 3. Mitochondrial mutations are also likely to contribute to a number of common clinical diseases.
One example is diabetes, which is the most prevalent metabolic disease affecting humans. It is also likely that mitochondrial mutations may predispose individuals to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Mitochondrial Inheritance. Figure 4: Inheritance of the maternal mitochondrial genome. The mitochondrial genome is inherited from the mother in each generation. Mitochondria in Aging and Cancer. Advances and Prospects in Mitochondrial Genetics. References and Recommended Reading Ingman, M.
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Just a Game? Living Well. View all the latest top news in the environmental sciences, or browse the topics below:. Keyword: Search. And it encodes different proteins that are specific for the mitochondrial. Now, remember those pathways that are within the mitochondrion for producing energy. Some of the enzymes in those pathways, and some of the proteins that are needed to function in those pathways, are produced by the mitochondrial DNA.
The mitochondrial DNA is critically important for many of the pathways that produce energy within the mitochondria. And if there's a defect in some of those mitochondrial DNA bases, that is to say a mutation, you will have a mitochondrial disease, which will involve the inability to produce sufficient energy in things like the muscle and the brain, and the kidney. So this is very helpful sometimes in determining how a person has a certain disorder in the family.
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