Clinical, physiological, and histologica
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M.A. Tarnopolsky; J. Maguire; T. Myint; D. Applegarth; B.H. Robinson
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The majority of patients with MELAS syndrome (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes) have an AโG mutation at nucleotide 3243 in mitochondrial transfer (t)RNA. To date there have only been 10 reported cases of MELAS syndrome in patients with a TโC mutation a