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[Leigh syndrome caused by the mitochondrial DNA G14459A mutation in a Mexican family].
Revista de neurologia - 1 Jan 2000
Gutiérrez A, Saldaña-Martínez A, García-Ramírez R, Rayo-Mares D, Carreras M, López-Pérez M J, Ruiz-Pesini E, Montoya J, Montiel-Sosa J F
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Leigh syndrome is a neurodegenerative and progressive disease that appears usually in childhood due to defects in nuclear or mitochondrial genome. The mutation G14459A in mitochondrial DNA has been associated previously to Leber hereditary optic neuropathy and recently to Leigh syndrome. CASE REPORT: A 10 months-old Mexican girl diagnosed of Leigh syndrome. Molecular-genetic studies detected the...
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