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[Mitochondrial DNA mutations and three major forms of mitochondrial myopathies: CPEO, MELAS and MERRF].
Nihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine - 1 Dec 1997
Goto Y
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations were discovered during a few years around 1990 and thought to be assigned to the three major clinical forms of mitochondrial myopathies. Then, several mtDNA mutations were detected in each disease and the common mutations were found in more than one disease, suggesting genotype and phenotype heterogeneity. Heteroplasmy, tissue/cellular specificity and threshold effect have been...
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