Deletions of muscle mitochondrial DNA in mitochondrial myopathies: sequence analysis and possible mechanisms
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Deletions of muscle mitochondrial DNA in mitochondrial myopathies: sequence analysis and possible mechanisms.
Forty per cent of patients with mitochondrial myopathies, a diverse group of multisystem diseases predominantly affecting skeletal muscle and the brain, have large deletions of a proportion of muscle mitochondrial DNA (mt DNA). These appeared to be identical in 13 of 28 cases, contained within the region 8286-13595 bp. Analysis of the deletion junction in two cases showed a 13 nucleotide sequen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0305-1048,1362-4962
DOI: 10.1093/nar/17.12.4465