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Late-onset optic atrophy, ataxia, and myopathy associated with a mutation of a complex II gene.
Annals of neurology - 1 Sept 2000
Birch-Machin M A, Taylor R W, Cochran B, Ackrell B A, Turnbull D M
Abstract excerpt
Genetic defects affecting the mitochondrial respiratory chain are an important cause of neurological disease. Previously, we identified a family with complex II deficiency and late-onset neurodegenerative disease with progressive optic atrophy, ataxia, and myopathy. The affected family members are now shown to carry a C-to-T transition in one allele of the nuclear gene encoding the flavoprotein subunit of complex...
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