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Compound heterozygous mutations in glycyl-tRNA synthetase (GARS) cause mitochondrial respiratory chain dysfunction.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Nafisinia Michael, Riley Lisa G, Gold Wendy A, Bhattacharya Kaustuv, Broderick Carolyn R, Thorburn David R, Simons Cas, Christodoulou John
Abstract excerpt
Glycyl-tRNA synthetase (GARS; OMIM 600287) is one of thirty-seven tRNA-synthetase genes that catalyses the synthesis of glycyl-tRNA, which is required to insert glycine into proteins within the cytosol and mitochondria. To date, eighteen mutations in GARS have been reported in patients with autos...
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