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Mouse models for mitochondrial disease.
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Jan 2001
Wallace D C
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in mitochondrial genes encoded by both mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and nuclear DNA (nDNA) genes have been implicated in a wide range of neuromuscular diseases. MtDNA base substitution and rearrangement mutations generally inactivate one or more tRNA or rRNA genes and can cause myopathy, cardiomyopathy, cataracts, growth retardation, diabetes, etc. nDNA mutations can cause Leigh syndrome, cardiomyopathy,...
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