The clinical features of leber's hereditary optic neuropathy defined by the presence of a pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutation

Brain

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 319-337

  Riordan eva, P ^a   Sanders, M D ^a   Govan, G G ^b   Sweeney, M G ^b   Costa, J D ^a   Harding, A E ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; CHILD; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; EYE INJURY; EYE MOVEMENT; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEAD INJURY; HEREDITARY OPTIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; ONSET AGE; PAIN; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETINA DISEASE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0028949749     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/118.2.319     Document Type: Article

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