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Mitochondrial myopathy with dystrophic features due to a novel mutation in the MTTM gene.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Aug 2014
Peverelli Lorenzo, Gold Carl A, Naini Ali B, Tanji Kurenai, Akman H Orhan, Hirano Michio, Dimauro Salvatore
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INTRODUCTION: A 61-year-old woman with a 5-year history of progressive muscle weakness and atrophy had a muscle biopsy characterized by a combination of dystrophic features (necrotic fibers and endomysial fibrosis) and mitochondrial alterations [ragged-red, cytochrome c oxidase (COX)-negative fibers]. METHODS: Sequencing of the whole mtDNA, assessment of the mutation load in muscle and accessible nonmuscle...
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