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Mutations in mtDNA-encoded cytochrome c oxidase subunit genes causing isolated myopathy or severe encephalomyopathy.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Dec 2005
Horváth R, Schoser B G H, Müller-Höcker J, Völpel M, Jaksch M, Lochmüller H
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We report on clinical, histological and genetic findings in two patients carrying novel heteroplasmic mutations in the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit genes COII and COIII. The first patient, a 35 year-old man had a multisystemic disease, with clinical symptoms of bilateral cataract, sensori-neural hearing loss, myopathy, ataxia, cardiac arrhythmia, depression and short stature and carried a 7970 G>T...
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