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Mitochondrial DNA nucleotide changes in non-arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy.
Neurology - 12 Oct 2004
Bosley Thomas M, Abu-Amero Khaled K, Ozand Pinar T
Abstract excerpt
The authors sequenced the entire mitochondrial DNA coding region in a group of 19 patients with non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION) and in 100 controls. Synonymous and nonsynonymous nucleotide changes were more common in NAION patients (p < 0.001). Twelve of these (11 novel) were potentially pathologic, nine of which altered moderately or highly conserved amino acids in the functional domain...
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