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Peripheral neuropathy in patients with the 3243A>G mutation in mitochondrial DNA.
Journal of neurology - 1 Feb 2003
Kärppä Mikko, Syrjälä Pirjo, Tolonen Uolevi, Majamaa Kari
Abstract excerpt
Peripheral neuropathy is one of the clinical manifestations of the MELAS (mitochondrial encephalopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes) syndrome, but its frequency and phenotypic variability have not been properly characterised. We therefore studied the clinical and electrophysiological features of peripheral neuropathy in 32 patients with the 3243A > G mutation in mitochondrial DNA by using...
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