Missense mutation in the mtDNA cytochrome b gene in a patient with myopathy. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • A patient with progressive exercise intolerance, proximal weakness, and complex III deficiency in skeletal muscle had a missense mutation in the cytochrome b gene of mitochondrial DNA (G15762A). The mutation, which leads to the substitution of a highly conserved amino acid (G339E), was heteroplasmic (85%) in the patient's muscle and was not present in 100 individuals of different ethnic backgrounds. These data strongly suggest that this molecular defect is the primary cause of the myopathy.

publication date

  • November 1, 1998

Research

keywords

  • Cytochrome b Group
  • DNA, Mitochondrial
  • Mitochondrial Myopathies
  • Mutation, Missense

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0031744009

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1212/wnl.51.5.1444

PubMed ID

  • 9818877

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 51

issue

  • 5