Yi Shiau Ng, Nichola Z Lax, Paul Maddison, Charlotte L Alston, Emma L Blakely, Philippa D Hepplewhite, Gillian Riordan, Surita Meldau, Patrick F Chinnery, Germaine Pierre, Efstathia Chronopoulou, Ailian Du, Imelda Hughes, Andrew A Morris, Smaragda Kamakari, Georgia Chrousos, Richard J Rodenburg, Christiaan G J Saris, Catherine Feeney, Steven A Hardy, Takafumi Sakakibara, Akira Sudo, Yasushi Okazaki, Kei Murayama, Helen Mundy, Michael G Hanna, Akira Ohtake, Andrew M Schaefer, Mike P Champion, Doug M Turnbull, Robert W Taylor, Robert D S Pitceathly, Robert McFarland, Gráinne S Gorman
Mutations in the m.13094T>C MT-ND5 gene have been previously described in three cases of Leigh Syndrome (LS). In this retrospective, international cohort study we identified 20 clinically affected individuals (13 families) and four asymptomatic carriers. Ten patients were deceased at the time of analysis (median age of death was 10years (range: 5·4months-37years, IQR=17·9years). Nine patients manifested with LS, one with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS), and one with Leber hereditary optic neuropathy...
February 24, 2018: EBioMedicine