Preferred Label : Heteroplasmy;
MeSH definition : The occurrence of more than one organellar GENOME in the organelle population of a
cell, tissue, or individual organism. It is due to the accumulation of different mutations
that occur within the population of individual organelles of a cell.;
MeSH Hyperonym : Heteroplasmic Variations;
Related MeSH term : Heteroplasmic Mutations;
Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroplasmy;
Origin ID : D000081942;
UMLS CUI : C5392226;
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The occurrence of more than one organellar GENOME in the organelle population of a
cell, tissue, or individual organism. It is due to the accumulation of different mutations
that occur within the population of individual organelles of a cell.