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Diagnosis and molecular basis of mitochondrial respiratory chain disorders: exome sequencing for disease gene identification.
Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1 Apr 2014
Ohtake A, Murayama K, Mori M, Harashima H, Yamazaki T, Tamaru S, Yamashita Y, Kishita Y, Nakachi Y, Kohda M, Tokuzawa Y, Mizuno Y, Moriyama Y, Kato H, Okazaki Y
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial disorders have the highest incidence among congenital metabolic diseases, and are thought to occur at a rate of 1 in 5000 births. About 25% of the diseases diagnosed as mitochondrial disorders in the field of pediatrics have mitochondrial DNA abnormalities, while the rest occur due to defects in genes encoded in the nucleus. The most important function of the mitochondria is biosynthesis of ATP....
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