Screening of common mitochondrial mutations in Chinese patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathies

Mitochondrion

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 147-150

  Qi, Yu ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Wang, Zhaoxia ^a   Yang, Yanling ^a   Yuan, Yun ^a   Niu, Shulan ^a   Pei, Pei ^a   Wang, Songtao ^a   Ma, Yinan ^a   Bu, Dingfang ^a   Zou, Liping ^b   Fang, Fang ^b   Xiao, Jing ^b   Sun, Fang ^a   Zhang, Yao ^a   Wu, Ye ^a   Wang, Shuang ^a   Xiong, Hui ^a   Wu, Xiru ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Leigh's syndrome; MELAS; MERRF; Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA); Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy; Mutation

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; LEIGH DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELAS SYNDROME; MERRF SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY; MITOCHONDRION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; OTOTOXICITY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

AGE OF ONSET; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENETIC SCREENING; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; LEIGH DISEASE; MELAS SYNDROME; MERRF SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOMYOPATHIES; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 33847641480     PISSN: 15677249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mito.2006.11.019     Document Type: Article

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