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A case of Kearns-Sayre syndrome showing a constant proportion of deleted mitochondrial DNA in blood cells during 6 years of follow-up.
Journal of the neurological sciences - 11 Jun 1998
Mohri I, Taniike M, Fujimura H, Matsuoka T, Inui K, Nagai T, Okada S
Abstract excerpt
Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) and Pearson syndrome (PS) show quite different phenotypes despite the same underlying genetic defect, i.e. a large deletion of one population of mitochondrial (mt) DNA. The main feature of KSS is progressive encephalomyopathy; on the other hand, PS shows fatal hematological problems in early infancy. Through Southern blot analysis of mtDNA of blood cells, deletion has been consistently...
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