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A novel mutation in the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene in a patient with MELAS syndrome, diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism and cardiomyopathy.
Journal of biomedical science - 1 Jan 2000
Hsieh R H, Li J Y, Pang C Y, Wei Y H
Abstract excerpt
Using RNase protection analysis, we found a novel C to G mutation at nucleotide position 3093 of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in a previously reported 35-year-old woman exhibiting clinical features of mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome together with diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism and cardiomyopathy. The patient also had an A3243G mutation in the...
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