Assigning pathogenicity to mitochondrial tRNA mutations: When 'definitely maybe' is not good enough

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 591-596

  McFarland, Robert ^a   Elson, Joanna L ^a   Taylor, Robert W ^a   Howell, Neil ^b,c   Turnbull, Douglass M ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Migenix Inc   (United States)

^c University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DATA BASE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; POINT MUTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; RNA STRUCTURE;

EID: 7444244924     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2004.09.014     Document Type: Short Survey

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