The 3260 mutation in mitochondrial DNA can cause mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes (MELAS)

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1603-1604

  Nishino, Ichizo ^a   Komatsu, Mikio ^c   Kodama, Soichi ^c   Horai, Satoshi ^d   Nonaka, Ikuya ^a,b   Goto, Yu Ichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

^b National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^c HIMEJI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

maternal; mitochondrial DNA; myopathy; tRNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPLEX PARTIAL SEIZURE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MELAS SYNDROME; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOCLONUS EPILEPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOTOMA;

CHILD; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EPILEPSIES, MYOCLONIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELAS SYNDROME; MUSCLES; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 0029822865     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199612)19:12<1603::AID-MUS10>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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