Article
Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy with dystonia in a Japanese family.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 15 Apr 2006
Watanabe Masaki, Mita Shuji, Takita Tomohiro, Goto Yu-ichi, Uchino Makoto, Imamura Shigehiro
Abstract excerpt
We investigated a Japanese family with generalized dystonia attributed to striatal degeneration, which occurred in childhood, and late-onset optic neuropathy. We determined the entire nucleotide sequence of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the proband and compared our findings with the 2001 Revised Cambridge Reference Sequence. The mtDNA of the proband showed a total of 42 nucleotide changes. We identified two...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
