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Delayed diagnosis of congenital myasthenia due to associated mitochondrial enzyme defect.
Neuromuscular disorders : NMD - 1 Mar 2015
Guo Yiran, Menezes Minal J, Menezes Manoj P, Liang Jinlong, Li Dong, Riley Lisa G, Clarke Nigel F, Andrews P Ian, Tian Lifeng, Webster Richard, Wang Fengxiang, Liu Xuanzhu, Shen Yulan, Thorburn David R, Keating Brendan J, Engel Andrew, Hakonarson Hakon, Christodoulou John, Xu Xun
Abstract excerpt
Clinical phenotypes of congenital myasthenic syndromes and primary mitochondrial disorders share significant overlap in their clinical presentations, leading to challenges in making the correct diagnosis. Next generation sequencing is transforming molecular diagnosis of inherited neuromuscular disorders by identifying novel disease genes and by identifying previously known genes in undiagnosed patients. This is...
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