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High frequency of mitochondrial complex I mutations in Parkinson's disease and aging.
Neurobiology of aging - 1 Jan 2000
Smigrodzki Rafal, Parks Janice, Parker W Davis
Abstract excerpt
Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) involves a systemic loss of activity of complex I of the mitochondrial electron transport chain. This biochemical lesion plays a key pathogenic role. Transfer of PD mitochondrial DNA recapitulates this loss of activity and several other pathogenic features of P...
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