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A novel mutation in NDUFS4 causes Leigh syndrome in an Ashkenazi Jewish family.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Dec 2008
Anderson S L, Chung W K, Frezzo J, Papp J C, Ekstein J, DiMauro S, Rubin B Y
Abstract excerpt
Leigh syndrome is a neurodegenerative disorder of infancy or childhood generally due to mutations in nuclear or mitochondrial genes involved in mitochondrial energy metabolism. We performed linkage analysis in an Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) family without consanguinity with three affected children. Linkage to microsatellite markers D5S1969 and D5S407 led to evaluation of the complex I gene NDUFS4, in which we...
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