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Single-cell analysis of mitochondrial DNA in patients and a carrier of the tRNA(Leu)(UUR) gene mutation.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Jun 1999
Saitoh S, Momoi M Y, Yamagata T, Nakauchi H, Nihei K, Fujii M
Abstract excerpt
We examined heteroplasmy of mutated mitochondrial DNA in single peripheral lymphocytes derived from 4 individuals carrying the nt 3243 A-to-G mutation, including two patients with MELAS, a patient with cardiomyopathy, deafness and diabetes mellitus, and the asymptomatic mother of one of the MELAS patients. In these subjects, all lymphocytes examined were heteroplasmic to different degrees, with a wider range of...
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