Melas with point mutations involving tRN
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Chin-Yuan Tzen; Peterus Thajeb; Tsu-Yen Wu; Shiu-Ching Chen
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Article
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2003
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The syndrome of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke‐like episode (MELAS) is typically associated with a single point mutation in the mitochondrial genome (mtDNA). Because mtDNA is known to have a higher mutation rate than nuclear DNA, we speculate that some pati