Detection and Quantification of Heteroplasmic Mutant Mitochondrial DNA by Real-Time Amplification Refractory Mutation System Quantitative PCR Analysis: A Single-Step Approach
- 1 June 2004
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Chemistry
- Vol. 50 (6), 996-1001
- https://doi.org/10.1373/clinchem.2004.031153
Abstract
Background: The A3243G mitochondrial tRNA leu(UUR) point mutation causes mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) syndrome, the most common mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) disorder, and is also found in patients with maternally inherited diabetes and deafness syndrome (MIDD). To correlate disease manifestation with mutation loads, it is necessary to measure the percentage of the A3243G mtDNA mutation.Keywords
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