Homoplasmy, heteroplasmy, and mitochondrial dystonia

Neurology

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 911-916

  McFarland, R ^a,d   Chinnery, P F ^a   Blakely, E L ^a   Schaefer, A M ^a   Morris, A A M ^b   Foster, S M ^a   Tuppen, H A L ^a   Ramesh, V ^c   Dorman, P J ^c   Turnbull, D M ^a   Taylor, R W ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Willink Biochemical Genetics Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DYSTONIA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROPLASMY; HOMOPLASMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INHERITANCE; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BASAL GANGLIA; BASAL GANGLIA DISEASES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DYSTONIA; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUTATION; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER; PEDIGREE; RNA, TRANSFER;

EID: 34548218295     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000267843.10977.4a     Document Type: Article

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