MITOFAM - A Pedigree Database for Mitochondrial DNA Variants

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*   MITOFAM - A Pedigree Database for Mitochondrial DNA Variants. [https://www.mitofam.com](https://www.mitofam.com), 2026

## About MITOFAM

Curator: Yunxia Cao

Principal Investigator: Dongmei Ji

Lead Researcher: Ning Zhang

Key Contributor: Haoyu He, Run Miao

Contributors: Chen Liu, Lemin Hu, Yang Yang, Yuzhou Gao, Run Miao, Siyuan Sheng, Jiamin Yan, Caoqi Shen, Qihan Wang, Yiming Dan, Enchi Yuan

**Advisory Board**

Senior Adviser: Yunxia Cao, Dongmei Ji

Consultants: Dan Liang, Weiwei Zou, Chunmei Liang, Yinyin Xie

**Host:**
1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, NHC Key Laboratory of Study on Abnormal Gametes and Reproductive Tract, the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, China;
2 Engineering Research Center of Biopreservation and Artificial Organs, Ministry of Education, China;
3 Key Laboratory of Population Health Across Life Cycle (Anhui Medical University), Ministry of Education, China.

**Funding:**
MITOFAM was supported by National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2024YFC2707200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82471896), Center for Big Data and Population Health of IHM (No. JKS2023015), Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Anhui province (No. 2022AH020072, 2022AH010072), and Key Research Program of Anhui Science and Technology Innovation Platform (No. 202305a12020016).

**Team Website**
https://www.ahmu-mitochondria.com/

## Contact MITOFAM Team

**Address:**
Mitochondrial Genetic Disease Prevention and Treatment Center,
Reproductive Medical Center,
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University,
No.218 Jixi Road, Hefei 230022, Anhui, China.

**E-mail:**
mitofam@163.com

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