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[Maternally inherited diabetes mellitus, deafness, chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia and myopathy as the result of A3243G mutation of mtDNA].
Orvosi hetilap - 24 Aug 2008
Gál Anikó, Szabó Antal, Pentelényi Klára, Pál Zsuzsanna
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome are caused mainly by the A3243G mutation of the mitochondrial genome. The A3243G substitution of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is also responsible for various, other clinical phenotypes and syndromes. Here we report the case of a 33-year-old woman, with childhood onset ophthalmoplegia externa, progressive, generalised exercise...
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