Tissue distribution of the ND4/11778 mutation in heteroplasmic lineages with leber hereditary optic neuropathy

Human Mutation

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 412-417

  Juvonen, Vesa ^a   Nikoskelainen, Eeva ^b   Lamminen, Tarja ^a   Penttinen, Maila ^b   Aula, Pertti ^a,b   Savontaus, Marja Liisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

heteroplasmy; LHON; mtDNA; tissue distribution

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HEREDITARY OPTIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0030989776     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1004(1997)9:5<412::AID-HUMU6>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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