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To: Free ThinkerNY

Preventing mitochondrial diseases is a good thing. And even better is the fact that the healthy baby can grow up to pass on its healthy mitochondrial DNA the natural way.


2 posted on 04/14/2010 8:10:43 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Most mitochondrial genes are not in the mitochondrium. They are actually integrated into the chromosome. Long story short: unless the faulty mitochondrial genes are in the mitochondrium, the problem won’t be fixed.


4 posted on 04/14/2010 8:17:49 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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