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Analysis of mutant DNA polymerase gamma in patients with mitochondrial DNA depletion.
Human mutation - 1 Feb 2009
Taanman Jan-Willem, Rahman Shamima, Pagnamenta Alistair T, Morris Andrew A M, Bitner-Glindzicz Maria, Wolf Nicole I, Leonard James V, Clayton Peter T, Schapira Anthony H V
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We studied six unrelated children with depletion of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). They presented with Leigh syndrome, infantile hepatocerebral mtDNA depletion syndrome, or Alpers-Huttenlocher syndrome. Several genes have been implicated in mtDNA depletion. Screening of candidate genes indicated that all six patients were compound heterozygous for missense mutations in the gene for the catalytic subunit of DNA...
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