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MIDD or MELAS : that's not the question MIDD evolving into MELAS : a severe phenotype of the m.3243A>G mutation due to paternal co-inheritance of type 2 diabetes and a high heteroplasmy level.
The Netherlands journal of medicine - 1 Dec 2012
de Wit H M, Westeneng H J, van Engelen B G M, Mudde A H
Abstract excerpt
Maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD) and mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) are different syndromes, but are caused by the same m.3243A>G mutation in mitochondrial DNA. Why some patients develop MIDD while others MELAS is unknown, but may be related to heteroplasmy level. Progression from MIDD to MELAS has not been described. Here we report a patient...
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