Maternally inherited encephalopathy associated with a single-base insertion in the mitochondrial tRNA(Trp) gene

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 256-260

  Santorelli, F M ^a   Tanji, K ^a   Sano, M ^a,b   Shanske, S ^a   El Shahawi, M ^a   Kranz Eble, P ^a   DiMauro, S ^a   De Vivo, D C ^a,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SEQUENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; AUTOPSY; BASE SEQUENCE; CHILD; CYTOCHROME-C OXIDASE DEFICIENCY; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HAIR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHIES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PEDIGREE; RNA, TRANSFER, TRP; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SKIN; SYNDROME; THYMIDINE;

EID: 0030746382     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.410420220     Document Type: Article

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