Two cases of prenatal analysis for the pathogenic T to G substitution at nucleotide 8993 in mitochondrial DNA

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1165-1168

  White, Sarah L ^a   Shanske, Sara ^b   Biros, Ivan ^a,c   Warwick, Linda ^a   Dahl, Henrik M ^a   Thorburn, David R ^a   Di Mauro, Salvatore ^b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Coll Phys Surgs of Columbia Univ ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mitochondrial DNA; Nucleotide 8993; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; THYMIDINE;

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CHORION VILLUS; FETUS; HUMAN; LEIGH DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POINT MUTATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; STILLBIRTH;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIGH DISEASE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SYNDROME;

ATAXIA;

EID: 0032700777     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0223(199912)19:12<1165::AID-PD719>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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