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Functional splicing assay supporting that c.70 + 5G > A mutation in the MPV17 gene is disease causing.
Journal of inherited metabolic disease - 1 Dec 2010
Navarro-Sastre Aleix, García-Silva Maria Teresa, Martín-Hernández Elena, Lluch Montserrat, Briones Paz, Ribes Antonia
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Mitochondrial DNA depletion syndrome (MDS) is a group of disorders characterized by a quantitative reduction of the mitochondrial DNA copy number and inherited as autosomal recessive traits. Patients affected by this group of diseases present with a wide variety of symptoms depending on the altered gene. MPV17 is one of the genes causing combined encephalopathy and liver failure and at present there is no...
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