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Clinical Phenotype and Genetic Features of a Pair of Chinese Twins with Kearns-Sayre Syndrome.
DNA and cell biology - 1 Aug 2020
Guo Luo, Wang Xin, Ji Haiting
Abstract excerpt
Kearns-Sayre Syndrome (KSS) is a severe mitochondrial disorder involving the central nervous system, eyes, ears, skeletal muscles, and heart. The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) rearrangements, especially the deletions, are present in almost all KSS patients and considered as the disease-causing factor. However, the size and position of mtDNA deletions are distinct in different individuals. In this study, we report the...
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