MELAS syndrome
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melas-syndrome-180-5844184
title:
MELAS syndrome
text:
MELAS is one of the family of mitochondrial diseases, which also include MIDD, MERRF syndrome, and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. It was first characterized under this name in 1984. A feature of these diseases is that they are caused by defects in the mitochondrial genome which is inherited purely from the female parent. The most common MELAS mutation is mitochondrial mutation, mtDNA, referred to as m.3243A>G.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mitochondrial disease
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MELAS_syndrome
date created:
2006-01-13T22:17:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T08:40:59Z
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