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POLG, but not PEO1, is a frequent cause of cerebellar ataxia in Central Europe.
Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society - 15 Nov 2010
Schicks Julia, Synofzik Matthis, Schulte Claudia, Schöls Ludger
Abstract excerpt
Nuclear genes, in particular mitochondrial polymerase gamma (POLG) and PEO1, have been increasingly recognized to cause mitochondrial diseases. Both genes assume a complementary role as part of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) replication fork and, accordingly, seem to present with largely overlapping phenotypical spectra. We assessed the frequency and phenotypic spectrum of PEO1 compared to POLG mutations in a...
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