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An example of Leber hereditary optic neuropathy not involving a mutation in the mitochondrial ND4 gene.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Oct 1990
Howell N, McCullough D
Abstract excerpt
A large Australian family afflicted with Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) is analyzed at the nucleotide sequence level in this report. Biochemical assays of platelet mitochondria isolated from members of this family have demonstrated a significant decrease in the specific activity of Complex I (NADH-ubiquinol oxidoreductase) of the electron transport chain. It is shown here, however, that neither this...
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