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Lack of mitochondrial complex I assembly factor NDUFAF2 results in a distinctive infantile-onset brainstem neurodegenerative disease with early lethality.
Orphanet journal of rare diseases - 28 Feb 2024
Abu Hanna Firas, Zehavi Yoav, Cohen-Barak Eran, Khayat Morad, Warwar Nasim, Shreter Roni, Rodenburg Richard J, Spiegel Ronen
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BACKGROUND: Congenital disorders of the mitochondrial respiratory chain are a heterogeneous group of inborn errors of metabolism. Among them, NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (complex I, CI) deficiency is the most common. Biallelic pathogenic variants in NDUFAF2, encoding the nuclear assembly CI factor NDUFAF2, were initially reported to cause progressive encephalopathy beginning in infancy. Since the initial...
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