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
Clinical and genetic uniqueness in an individual with MELAS
โ Scribed by Ayyasamy Vanniarajan; Dinesh Nayak; Alla G. Reddy; Lalji Singh; Kumarasamy Thangaraj
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 216 KB
- Volume
- 141B
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4841
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