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Medical Definition of Mitochondrial inheritance
1. 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. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitochondrial Inheritance
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