Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy mitochondrial DNA mutations in familial multiple sclerosis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 348-350

  Mojon, D S ^d   Fujihara, K ^a,b   Hirano, M ^c   Miller, C ^a   Lincoff, N S ^a   Jacobs, L D ^a   Greenberg, S J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Division of Reproductive Endocrinology   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEREDITARY OPTIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 0032969407     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050243     Document Type: Article

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