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A case report from Copenhagen (New England Journal of Medicine 2002;347:576-80; see also editorial, ibid: 609-12) has shown that mitochondrial DNA may be inherited from the father. Usually mitochondria from sperm are effectively eliminated in the early embryo by selective destruction, inactivation, or dilution by oocyte mitochondria. The Danish report describes a 28-year old man with a mitochondrial myopathy. His muscle tissue had a novel mitochondrial DNA deletion in …