Myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber disease (MERRF) is associated with a mitochondrial DNA tRNALys mutation

Cell

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 931-937

  Shoffner, John M ^a   Lott, Marie T ^a   Lezza, Angela M S ^a   Seibel, Peter ^a   Ballinger, Scott W ^a   Wallace, Douglas C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; MUTATION; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENINE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; GUANINE; HUMAN; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBES; PEDIGREE; RNA, TRANSFER, AMINO ACID-SPECIFIC; RNA, TRANSFER, LYS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025368281     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(90)90059-N     Document Type: Article

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