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Mitochondrial inheritance
Mitochondria, cytoplasmic organelles that produce the energy source ATP for most chemical reactions in the body, contain their own distinct genome; mutations in mitochondrial genes are responsible for several recognised syndromes and are always maternally inherited since ova contain mitochondria, whereas sperm do not.
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