Neurologic disorders due to mitochondrial DNA mutations.

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The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is a compact genome inherited through the maternal lineage. Mutations in mtDNA lead to many of the earliest identified syndromic mitochondrial diseases and display a diverse range of age of onset, symptoms, and outcomes-from isolated childhood onset vision or hearing loss to a multisystemic neurodegenerative disorder with strokes, neuropathy, ophthalmoparesis, and epilepsy beginning...

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