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Are congenital heart defects considered mitochondrial diseases or something else?
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Something else.: Congenital heart defects are typically multifactorial in inheritance and have nothing to do with mitochondrial disease.
Answered 7/23/2012
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Not mitochrondrial: Congenital heart defects do not generaly effect mitochodria.
Answered 9/5/2013
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