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The first patient diagnosed with cytochrome c oxidase deficient Leigh syndrome: progress report.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Feb 2006
Coenen M J H, Smeitink J A M, Farhoud M H, Nijtmans L G J, Rodenburg R, Janssen A, van Kaauwen E P M, Trijbels F J M, van den Heuvel L P
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in SURF1, an assembly gene for cytochrome c oxidase (COX), the fourth complex of the oxidative phosphorylation system, are most frequently encountered in patients with COX deficiency. We describe a patient with Leigh syndrome harbouring a mutation in SURF1 who was reported decades ago with a tissue-specific cytochrome c oxidase deficiency.
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