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Barth Syndrome: Connecting Cardiolipin to Cardiomyopathy.
Lipids - 1 Feb 2017
Ikon Nikita, Ryan Robert O
Abstract excerpt
The Barth syndrome (BTHS) is caused by an inborn error of metabolism that manifests characteristic phenotypic features including altered mitochondrial membrane phospholipids, lactic acidosis, organic acid-uria, skeletal muscle weakness and cardiomyopathy. The underlying cause of BTHS has been definitively traced to mutations in the tafazzin (TAZ) gene locus on chromosome X. TAZ encodes a phospholipid transacylase...
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