Article
Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia: a correlative study of mitochondrial DNA deletions and their phenotypic expression in muscle biopsies.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 1 Dec 1990
Goto Y, Koga Y, Horai S, Nonaka I
Abstract excerpt
Deleted mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been shown to coexist with normal mtDNA (heteroplasmy) in muscles from chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, including Kearns-Sayre syndrome. In this study, we correlated heteroplasmic mtDNA abnormality with clinical, biochemical and histological find...
Topics
- Chromosome Deletion
- Cytochrome-c Oxidase Deficiency
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Electron Transport Complex IV
- Humans
- Mitochondria, Muscle
- Muscles
- Ophthalmoplegia
- Phenotype
