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POLG mutations associated with remitting/relapsing neurological events.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia - 1 Jan 2014
Degos Bertrand, Laforêt Pascal, Jardel Claude, Sedel Frédéric, Jossay-Winter Murielle, Romero Norma B, Lyon-Caen Olivier, Tourbah Ayman
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Recent experimental data underline the relationship between mitochondria and immune function. Clinical reports of patients presenting with mitochondrial dysfunction associated with dysimmune responses in the central nervous system reinforce this new concept. We describe the first case of a woman presenting with symptoms related to a novel compound heterozygous mutation of the mitochondrial polymerase γ (POLG)...
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