How mitochondrial DNA defects cause inherited deafness

Friday, February 17, 2012 - 15:30 in Biology & Nature

Scientists have discovered the molecular pathway by which maternally inherited deafness appears to occur: Mitochondrial DNA mutations trigger a signaling cascade, resulting in programmed cell death.

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