See Also: mitochondrial inheritance(medicine)
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DNA, mitochondrial(health)
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mitochondrial genome(medicine)
mitochondrial gene(medicine)
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mitochondrial disease(medicine)
mitochondrial chromosome(medicine)

mitochondrial inheritance (medicine)


mitochondrial inheritance


The inheritance of a trait encoded in the mitochondrial genome. Because of the oddities of mitochondria, mitochondrial inheritance does not obey the classic rules of genetics. Persons with a mitochondrial disease may be male or female but they are always related in the maternal line and no male with the disease can transmit it to his children.