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Reversible infantile respiratory chain deficiency: a clinical and molecular study.
Annals of neurology - 1 Dec 2010
Mimaki Masakazu, Hatakeyama Hideyuki, Komaki Hirofumi, Yokoyama Mina, Arai Hidee, Kirino Yohei, Suzuki Tsutomu, Nishino Ichizo, Nonaka Ikuya, Goto Yu-ichi
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OBJECTIVE: To characterize the clinical features and clarify the pathogenicity of "benign cytochrome c oxidase deficiency myopathy." METHODS: The study included 8 patients with the phenotype of this disease. Six patients underwent muscle biopsies and all the 8 underwent mitochondrial DNA analyses. To confirm the pathogenicity of the detected mitochondrial DNA mutation, we performed northern blot analysis, using...
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