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Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy due to a novel mutation in the tRNAGlu of mitochondrial DNA.
Journal of child neurology - 1 Jul 2007
Pancrudo Jacklyn, Shanske Sara, Bonilla Eduardo, Daras Mariza, Akman Hasan O, Krishna Sindu, Malkin Elfrida, DiMauro Salvatore
Abstract excerpt
A 14-year-old boy had exercise intolerance, weakness, ataxia, and lactic acidosis. Because his muscle biopsy showed a mosaic pattern of fibers staining intensely with the succinate dehydrogenase reaction but not at all with the cytochrome c oxidase reaction, we sequenced his mitochondrial DNA and found a novel mutation (C14680A) in the gene for tRNAGlu. The mutation was present in accessible tissues from the...
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