Editing Mitochondrial disease (section)

==Notable cases==
Notable people with mitochondrial disease include:
* [[Mattie Stepanek]], a poet, peace advocate, and motivational speaker who had dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy, and who died at age 13.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2004/jun/23/young-poet-peace-advocate-mattie-dies/|title=Young poet, peace advocate Mattie dies &#124; the Spokesman-Review }}</ref>
* [[Rocco Baldelli]], a coach and former center fielder in [[Major League Baseball]] who had to retire from active play at age 29 due to mitochondrial channelopathy.
* [[Charlie Gard case|Charlie Gard]], a British boy who had [[mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome]]; decisions about his care were taken to various law courts.
* [[Charles Darwin]], a nineteenth century naturalist who suffered from a disabling illness, is speculated to have [[MELAS syndrome]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hayman |first1=John |title=Charles Darwin's Mitochondria |journal=Genetics |date=May 2013 |volume=194 |issue=1 |pages=21–25 |doi=10.1534/genetics.113.151241 |pmid=23633139 |pmc=3632469 }}</ref>