Clinical and molecular features of polg-related mitochondrial disease

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1-17

  Stumpf, Jeffrey D ^a   Saneto, Russell P ^b   Copeland, William C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b SEATTLE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POLG PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84875972413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a011395     Document Type: Article

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