Article
Mitochondrial dysfunction in autism.
Seminars in pediatric neurology - 1 Sept 2013
Legido Agustín, Jethva Reena, Goldenthal Michael J
Abstract excerpt
Using data of the current prevalence of autism as 200:10,000 and a 1:2000 incidence of definite mitochondrial (mt) disease, if there was no linkage of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and mt disease, it would be expected that 1 in 110 subjects with mt disease would have ASD and 1 in 2000 individuals with ASD would have mt disease. The co-occurrence of autism and mt disease is much higher than these figures,...
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