Disentangling (Epi)genetic and environmental contributions to the mitochondrial 3243A>Gmutation phenotype phenotypic destiny in mitochondrial disease?

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 923-925

  Picard, Martin ^a,b   Hirano, Michio ^a  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; GLYCINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HALLUCINATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HERITABILITY; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL BIOGENESIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; MUTATION;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84981244074     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2016.1676     Document Type: Review

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