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Leigh disease with brainstem involvement in complex I deficiency due to assembly factor NDUFAF2 defect.
Neuropediatrics - 1 Feb 2010
Herzer M, Koch J, Prokisch H, Rodenburg R, Rauscher C, Radauer W, Forstner R, Pilz P, Rolinski B, Freisinger P, Mayr J A, Sperl W
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial NADH: ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I) deficiency accounts for most defects in mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation. Pathogenic mutations have been described in all 7 mitochondrial and 12 of the 38 nuclear encoded subunits as well as in assembly factors by interfering with the building of the mature enzyme complex within the inner mitochondrial membrane. We now describe a male patient with a...
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