Pulkes, T and Eunson, L and Patterson, V and Siddiqui, A and Wood, NW and Nelson, IP and Morgan-Hughes, JA and Hanna, MG (1999) The mitochondrial DNA G13513A transition in ND5 is associated with a LHON/MELAS overlap syndrome and may be a frequent cause of MELAS. ANN NEUROL , 46 (6) 916 - 919.
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Abstract
We report on 4 male patients with clinical, radiological, and muscle biopsy findings typical of the mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) phenotype. Skeletal muscle mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis showed that all patients harbored a heteroplasmic G13513A mutation in the ND5 subunit gene. One of these cases (Patient I) presented with symptoms characteristic of Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) 2 years before the first stroke-like episode. Quantitative analysis in several postmortem tissue sections showed that the relative proportions of mutant mtDNA were generally lower than those reported with other pathogenic mtDNA mutations. Single-fiber polymerase chain reaction studies demonstrated significantly higher amounts of mutant mtDNA in ragged red fibers (RRFs) compared with non-RRFs. This study indicates that the G13513A transition is likely to be pathogenic, that it can cause an LHON/MELAS overlap syndrome, and that it may be a more frequent cause of MELAS than previously recognized.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The mitochondrial DNA G13513A transition in ND5 is associated with a LHON/MELAS overlap syndrome and may be a frequent cause of MELAS |
| Keywords: | LACTIC-ACIDOSIS, EPISODES MELAS, POINT MUTATION, ENCEPHALOPATHY, MTDNA, GENE, MYOPATHY, ENCEPHALOMYOPATHY, IDENTIFICATION, SUBUNITS |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Neurology > Molecular Neuroscience |
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