By: Jennifer Tschida
For The Alpine Sun
Every 30 minutes a child is born who will develop a mitochondrial disease by age 10. Children with MD have a 50 percent chance of living past age 10 and only 20 percent live to age 20. At least one in 200 individuals in the general public have a mitochondrial DNA mutation that may lead to disease. It is greatly under diagnosed and the true prevalence is difficult to determine.
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