The UK MRC Mitochondrial Disease Patient Cohort Study: Clinical phenotypes associated with the m.3243A>G mutation - Implications for diagnosis and management

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 936-938

  Nesbitt, Victoria ^a   Pitceathly, Robert D S ^b   Turnbull, Doug M ^a   Taylor, Robert W ^a   Sweeney, Mary G ^b   Mudanohwo, Ese E ^b   Rahman, Shamima ^b   Hanna, Michael G ^b   McFarland, Robert ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GUANINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CHILD; CHRONIC PROGRESSIVE EXTERNAL OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNALLY INHERITED DEAFNESS AND DIABETES; MELAS SYNDROME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84879908941     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2012-303528     Document Type: Article

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