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ReviewAnnual review of genetics2026

Mitochondrial DNA Inheritance and Germline Purifying Selection: Insights From

Zhe Chen, Hong Xu

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Review in Annual review of genetics, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zhe ChenNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA ; email: hong.xu@nih.gov.
Hong XuNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA ; email: hong.xu@nih.gov.

Funding

Mitochondrial DNA inheritance in DrosophilaZIAHL006153 · NHLBI · NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE · PI XU, HONG · 2012 to 2025
$26.5M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HL006153
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mitochondrial genome resides in a highly mutagenic environment and is typically maternally inherited with little recombination, features that should render mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) prone to the accumulation of deleterious variants. Contrary to this expectation, mtDNA integrity is remarkably well-preserved over evolution. Purifying selection in the female germline that limits transmission of deleterious mtDNA mutations has been documented in various animal models and in humans. Here, we synthesize the literature, with an emphasis on insights from

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PMID42424615
PMCPMC13678597

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