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Identification of a novel compound heterozygote SCO2 mutation in cytochrome c oxidase deficient fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy.
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) - 1 Jan 2007
Knuf M, Faber J, Huth R G, Freisinger P, Zepp F, Kampmann C
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UNLABELLED: Fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy (OMIM No. 604377) is a disorder of the mitochondrial respiratory chain and is characterised by neonatal progressive muscular hypotonia and cardiomyopathy because of severe Cytochrome c oxidase deficiency. Here we report a novel mutation in the Cytochrome c oxidase assembly gene SCO2 in an infant with fatal infantile cardioencephalomyopathy despite normal initial...
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