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All of the missense mutations were inherited from either mildly affected (three cases) or unaffected parents (four cases); inheritance of the nonsense mutation was not examined (Suzuki et al. 2009).

Few of these mutations were inherited in the traditional sense, and the affected children are typically the only family member with the disorder.

All mutations were inherited from her father.

The majority of the mutations were inherited from a healthy parent demonstrating incomplete penetrance.

For the MCCD cases that shared a common mutation, we checked for relatedness to determine if the mutations were inherited from a common ancestor.

Two heterozygous missense mutations, p.M1T (c.2 T > C) in exon 1 and p.I202N (c.605 T > A ) in exon 6, were detected in patient 2, and these mutations were inherited from each parent.

Therefore, Sanger validation confirmed that these two mutations are inherited from different parents, which fits the known inheritance mode of the Sanfilippo syndrome.

14– 16 Nuclear DNA mutations are inherited in a Mendelian fashion, with autosomal recessive and X-linked inheritance seen as the etiology of Leigh syndrome.

Some of these mutations are inherited; others occur spontaneously during or near conception.

Mitochondrial DNA and diseases due to mitochondrial mutations are inherited in a strictly matrilineal manner.

But it is not clear whether the guilty mutations are inherited, or whether they arise anew in each generation.