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What Happens When You Have Major Deletion in Your Mitochondrial DNA?
This is a very complex question to answer. I don't think we can actually live with absence of parts of our mitochondria completely. And what we see in patients is that they have actually a state called heteroplasmy in which some of their mitochondria have normal mitochondrial DNA and some have deletions in the mitochondrial DNA. There's a lot of consequences to not having the full complement of mitochondria in working order.
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