About the Authors

Patrick F. Chinnery

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, Central Parkway, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Lyndsey Craven

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Shoukhrat Mitalipov

Affiliation Division of Reproductive & Developmental Sciences, Oregon National Primate Research Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Beaverton, Oregon, United States of America

James B. Stewart

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany

Mary Herbert

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Newcastle Fertility Centre, International Centre for Life, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Douglass M. Turnbull

doug.turnbull@newcastle.ac.uk

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research, Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.