Raising doubts about the pathogenicity of mitochondrial DNA mutation m.3308T>C in left ventricular hypertraveculation/noncompaction

Cardiology (Switzerland)

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 113-115

  Salas, Antonio ^a   Elson, Joanna L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; CYTOSINE; METHIONINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE SUBUNIT 1; THYMINE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CODON; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; LETTER; LIPID MEMBRANE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOLATED NONCOMPACTION OF THE VENTRICULAR MYOCARDIUM; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 84863517947     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: 14219751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000339348     Document Type: Letter

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