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Mutation profile of neurodegenerative mitochondriopathy - LHON in Southern India.
Gene - 20 Apr 2022
Gowri Poigaialwar, Sathish Ponraj, Mahesh Kumar Shanmugam, Sundaresan Periasamy
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BACKGROUND: Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy (LHON) is a rare mitochondriopathy causing retinal ganglion cell degeneration resulting in central vision loss. It is caused by mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations and thus follows maternal inheritance pattern. METHODS: We analysed the whole mitochondrial genome in 100 South Indian LHON patients by utilizing Sanger and Next Generation Sequencing approaches....
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