Exhaustive scanning approach to screen all the mitochondrial tRNA genes for mutations and its application to the investigation of 35 independent patients with mitochondrial disorders

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-42

  Sternberg, Damien ^a   Danan, Claude ^a   Lombès, Anne ^b   Laforêt, Pascal ^b   Girodon, Emmanuelle ^a   Goossens, Michel ^a   Amselem, Serge ^a  

^a HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHIES; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 0031985058     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.1.33     Document Type: Article

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