为什么粒线体绝大多数是母性遗传呢?
老爸,原来也有你不能给我东西啊 XD
但其实在《新英格兰医学期刊》2002 年第 25 期的〈Paternal Inheritance of Mitochondrial DNA〉研究中,也有极少数细胞的粒线体带有父亲的 DNA,大家可以去看看,但也产生不少遗传性疾病。







參考資料:
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- Sutovsky P., Moreno R.D., et al. (1999). “Ubiquitin tag for sperm mitochondria.” Nature402(6760):371-2.
- Gustafson A.W. (2002). “Paternal inheritance of mitochondrial DNA.” N Engl J Med.347(25):2081-2