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Sporadic mitochondrial myopathy due to a new mutation in the mitochondrial tRNASer(UCN) gene.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Jul 2004
Bidooki Seyed, Jackson Margaret J, Johnson Margaret A, Chrzanowska-Lightowlers Zofia M A, Taylor Robert W, Venables Graham, Lightowlers Robert N, Turnbull Douglass M, Bindoff Laurence A
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We describe a young woman with a progressive mitochondrial myopathy that started with muscle weakness and went on to include deafness, dementia and ataxia. Skeletal muscle showed the histological and biochemical features of mitochondrial respiratory chain dysfunction. Genetic analysis identified a novel, heteroplasmic, A to G transition in tRNA(Ser(UCN)) at position 7480 affecting a highly conserved base in the...
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