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SUBMITTER: Yu-Wai-Man P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2643051 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu-Wai-Man P P Griffiths P G PG Hudson G G Chinnery P F PF
Journal of medical genetics 20081110 3
Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) and autosomal dominant optic atrophy (DOA) are the two most common inherited optic neuropathies and they result in significant visual morbidity among young adults. Both disorders are the result of mitochondrial dysfunction: LHON from primary mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations affecting the respiratory chain complexes; and the majority of DOA families have mutations in the OPA1 gene, which codes for an inner mitochondrial membrane protein critical for mtD ...[more]