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Tissue-specific clonal expansion of mutated mtDNA. As there is no synchronization between cell division and mtDNA replication, a mutated mtDNA (red dots) of different tissue cells may be replicated many times. This will lead to accumulation of mtDNA mutations and impaired respiratory chain function, which in turn cause decline in tissue functions.
