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Descriptor English: Heteroplasmy
Descriptor Spanish: Heteroplasmia
Descriptor heteroplasmia
Entry term(s) homoplasmia
macroheteroplasmia
microheteroplasmia
mutación heteroplásmica
variación heteroplásmica
Scope note: Existencia de más de un GENOMA organular en la población de orgánulos de una célula, tejido u organismo individual. Se debe a la acumulación de diferentes mutaciones que se producen en la población de orgánulos individuales de una célula.
Descriptor Portuguese: Heteroplasmia
Descriptor French: Hétéroplasmie
Entry term(s): Heteroplasmic Mutation
Heteroplasmic Mutations
Heteroplasmic Variation
Heteroplasmic Variations
Homoplasmy
Macroheteroplasmy
Microheteroplasmy
Tree number(s): G05.365.461
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000081942
Scope note: 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.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: DNA, Mitochondrial (1983-2020)
Genetic Variation (1986-2020)
Public MeSH Note: 2021
History Note: 2021
DeCS ID: 59317
Unique ID: D000081942
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Date Established: 2021/01/01
Date of Entry: 2020/07/07
Revision Date: 2020/06/09
Heteroplasmy - Preferred
Concept UI M000655177
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Heteroplasmy
Heteroplasmic Mutation - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000655438
Preferred term Heteroplasmic Mutation
Entry term(s) Heteroplasmic Mutations
Macroheteroplasmy - Narrower
Concept UI M000655181
Preferred term Macroheteroplasmy
Heteroplasmic Variation - Broader
Concept UI M000655437
Preferred term Heteroplasmic Variation
Entry term(s) Heteroplasmic Variations
Homoplasmy - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000655180
Scope note Identical organellar GENOMES throughout a population of organelles.
Preferred term Homoplasmy
Microheteroplasmy - Narrower
Concept UI M000655179
Preferred term Microheteroplasmy



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