Peripheral neuropathy with ataxia in childhood as a result of the G8363A mutation in mitochondrial DNA

Pediatric Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 55-59

  Pineda, Mercedes ^a,e   Solano, Abelardo ^b   Artuch, Rafael ^a   Andreu, Antonio L ^c   Playan, Ana ^b   Vilaseca, Maria A ^a   Colomer, Jaime ^a   Briones, Paz ^d   Casademont, Jordi ^a   Montoya, Julio ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^d Institut de Bioquimica Clinica Barcelona   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATAXIA; BIOPSY; CHILD; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PEDIGREE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH;

EID: 3042523720     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000130475.20571.98     Document Type: Article

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