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Macular pattern retinal dystrophy, adult-onset diabetes, and deafness: a family study of A3243G mitochondrial heteroplasmy.
American journal of ophthalmology - 1 Aug 1997
Harrison T J, Boles R G, Johnson D R, LeBlond C, Wong L J
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PURPOSE: To correlate mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutation with phenotypic expression in three members of a Finnish family with macroreticular pattern dystrophy, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and deafness. METHODS: A multiplex polymerase chain reaction/allele-specific oligonucleotide method was used to screen 10 mtDNA point mutations known to cause mitochondrial DNA disorders, often characterized by...
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