The epidemiology of pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 188-193

  Chinnery, P F ^a   Johnson, M A ^a   Wardell, T M ^a   Singh Kler, R ^a   Hayes, C ^a   Brown, D T ^a   Taylor, R W ^a   Bindoff, L A ^a   Turnbull, D M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DELETION MUTANT; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0033862962     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1531-8249(200008)48:2<188::AID-ANA8>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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