An mtDNA mutation in the initiation codon of the cytochrome C oxidase subunit II gene results in lower levels of the protein and a mitochondrial encephalomyopathy

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1330-1339

  Clark, Kim M ^a   Taylor, Robert W ^a   Johnson, Margaret A ^a   Chinnery, Patrick F ^a   Chrzanowska Lightowlers, Zofia M A ^a   Andrews, Richard M ^a   Nelson, Isobel P ^b   Wood, Nicholas W ^b   Lamont, Phillipa J ^b   Hanna, Michael G ^b   Lightowlers, Robert N ^a   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; ENOYL COENZYME A HYDRATASE; METHIONINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; RNA; THREONINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY CHAIN;

EID: 0033362085     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302361     Document Type: Article

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