ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
Mutations of mtDNA - inheriting without perishing
Mutations of mtDNA cause mitochondrial diseases and are heavily implicated in the pathophysiology of age-associated diseases and ageing. Low levels of mtDNA mutations are universally present in somatic tissues of all humans and mtDNA mutations have been reported to contribute to age-associated diseases. Somatic mutations of mtDNA often arise during the massive mtDNA replication in embryogenesis and can accumulate postnatally by clonal expansion. Furthermore, ongoing mtDNA replication during adult life also contributes to the burden of mtDNA mutations in mammalian somatic tissues. Mammalian mtDNA is maternally transmitted without germline recombination and this asexual mode of transmission…
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