Preferred Label : Mitochondrial DNA;
NCIt synonyms : Mitochondrial Chromosome;
NCIt related terms : Chromosome M; mtDNA; M Chromosome; chrM; mDNA;
NCIt definition : Typically small, circular, intronless, and maternally inherited, mitochondrial DNA
(mtDNA) is the multicopy deoxyribonucleic acid genome of mitochondria, intracellular
organelles responsible for vital respiratory chain and oxidative phosphorylation reactions
in higher eukaryotes. Replicated and transcribed by a separate enzymatic machinery
from that of nuclear DNA, mtDNA encodes only a subset of mitochondrial functions.
(NCI04);
Alternative definition : CDISC: Typically small, circular, intronless, and maternally inherited, mitochondrial
DNA (mtDNA) is the multicopy deoxyribonucleic acid genome of mitochondria, intracellular
organelles responsible for vital respiratory chain and oxidative phosphorylation reactions
in higher eukaryotes. Replicated and transcribed by a separate enzymatic machinery
from that of nuclear DNA, mtDNA encodes only a subset of mitochondrial functions.;
Origin ID : C28512;
UMLS CUI : C0012929;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Semantic type(s)
- UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- concept_is_in_subset
