Mitochondrial diseases are a group of genetic disorders characterized by mutations in nuclear or mitochondrial DNA, causing a range of manifestations that can present at various times. This ...
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? Similar to the nuclear ...
or other rare or ultra-rare diseases of the nervous system with a known or suspected genetic basis. Baylor Medicine’s Mitochondrial Medicine Clinic provides genetic evaluation and counseling as well ...
But while constraint models have been highly effective for identifying disease-causing variants in the nuclear genome, they have not been useful for mutations in the mitochondrial genome ...