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Quantification of mitochondrial DNA deletion, depletion, and overreplication: application to diagnosis.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Aug 2003
Chabi Béatrice, Mousson de Camaret Bénédicte, Duborjal Hervé, Issartel Jean-Paul, Stepien Georges
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BACKGROUND: Many mitochondrial pathologies are quantitative disorders related to tissue-specific deletion, depletion, or overreplication of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). We developed an assay for the determination of mtDNA copy number by real-time quantitative PCR for the molecular diagnosis of such alterations. METHODS: To determine altered mtDNA copy number in muscle from nine patients with single or multiple...
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