See Also: Mitochondrial heteroplasmy(health)
Heteroplasmy(health)
heteroplasmy(medicine)
Mitochondrial(medicine)
DNA, mitochondrial(medicine)
DNA, mitochondrial(health)
mitochondrial swelling(medicine)
mitochondrial disease(medicine)
mitochondrial encephalomyopathies(medicine)
mitochondrial genome(medicine)

Mitochondrial heteroplasmy (health)


An atypical condition characterized by the presence of more than one type of mitochondrial DNA in a single individual. Normally, each individual has only one type of mitochondrial DNA, inherited from his or her mother through the egg at fertilization. (Mitochondria from the sperm are systematically eliminated by the egg at fertilization.)Cloned organisms may exhibit mitochondrial heteroplasmy (having a mixture of mitochondria from both the donor cell and the recipient egg) because this elimination system may be bypassed during the cloning process.