A mutational hot spot in the mithochondrial ND6 gene in patients with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 96-100

  Luberichs, Janina ^a   Leo Kottler, Beate ^a   Besch, Dorothea ^a   Fauser, Sascha ^a  

^a Universitats Augenklinik Abt II   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOLEUCINE; METHIONINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL SCOTOMA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; HEREDITARY OPTIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

EID: 0036938993     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-001-0423-1     Document Type: Article

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