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Mitochondrial dysfunction and Down's syndrome.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Aug 2002
Arbuzova Svetlana, Hutchin Tim, Cuckle Howard
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Neither the pathogenesis nor the aetiology of Down's syndrome (DS) are clearly understood. Numerous studies have examined whether clinical features of DS are a consequence of specific chromosome 21 segments being triplicated. There is no evidence, however, that individual loci are responsible, or that the oxidative damage in DS could be solely explained by a gene dosage effect. Using astrocytes and neuronal...
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