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Summary of the main findings of the study. A range of cellular defects, such as aneuploidy, mis-patterning or mtDNA mutations cause alterations in mitochondria function, which affect the relative fitness of cells. The cells with suboptimal mitochondrial activity survive in a homogeneous population but are eliminated by cell competition in the presence of fitter cells.
