Motor neuron disease in a patient with a mitochondrial tRNAIle mutation

Annals of Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 570-574

  Borthwick, Gillian M ^a   Taylor, Robert W ^a   Walls, Timothy J ^b   Tonska, Kasia ^a,c   Taylor, Geoffrey A ^a   Shaw, Pamela J ^d   Ince, Paul G ^e   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d Academic Unit of Haematology   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA DISORDER; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER, ILE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 33644832850     PISSN: 03645134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ana.20758     Document Type: Article

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