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MELAS syndrome

MELAS syndrome is a mitochondrial disorder that to a variable degree is characterized by myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes.

Systematic

Hereditary metabolic diseases
Coenzyme Q10 deficiency
Congenital disorder of glycosylation
Disorders of cobalamin metabolism
Disorders of iron metabolism
Disorders of urate metabolism
Disturbances in phosphate metabolism
Disturbances of glucose metabolism
Food intolerance
Genetic hyperbilirubinemia
Glycolipidosis
HADH deficiency
Hereditary disorders protein metabolism
Hereditary lipid disorders
Hypercatabolic hypoproteinemia
Hyperzincemia and hypercalprotectinemia
Hypomagnesemia
Hypomethylation syndrome
Lysosomal storage disease
MELAS syndrome
EHHADH
MT-ND1
MT-ND5
MT-ND6
MT-TC
MT-TH
MT-TK
MT-TQ
MT-TS1
MT-TS2
Methionine adenosyltransferase deficiency
Methylmalonic aciduria
Urea cycle disorders

References:

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Lertrit P et al. (1992) A new disease-related mutation for mitochondrial encephalopathy lactic acidosis and strokelike episodes (MELAS) syndrome affects the ND4 subunit of the respiratory complex I.

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Montagna P et al. (1988) MELAS syndrome: characteristic migrainous and epileptic features and maternal transmission.

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De Quick M et al. (1991) MELAS: a family with paternal inheritance.

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Kisanuki YY et al. (2006) Late-onset mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes with bitemporal lesions.

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Kaufmann P et al. (2006) Nerve conduction abnormalities in patients with MELAS and the A3243G mutation.

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Goto Y et al. (1992) Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS): a correlative study of the clinical features and mitochondrial DNA mutation.

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Testai FD et al. (2010) Inherited metabolic disorders and stroke part 1: Fabry disease and mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes.

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Nakamura M et al. (1995) A novel point mutation in the mitochondrial tRNA(Ser(UCN)) gene detected in a family with MERRF/MELAS overlap syndrome.

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Pavlakis SG et al. (1984) Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes: a distinctive clinical syndrome.

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Zeviani M et al. (1993) A MERRF/MELAS overlap syndrome associated with a new point mutation in the mitochondrial DNA tRNA(Lys) gene.

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Mosewich RK et al. (1993) The syndrome of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes presenting without stroke.

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Kobayashi Y et al. (1990) A point mutation in the mitochondrial tRNA(Leu)(UUR) gene in MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes).

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Goto Y et al. (1990) A mutation in the tRNA(Leu)(UUR) gene associated with the MELAS subgroup of mitochondrial encephalomyopathies.

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Parsons T et al. (2010) Autonomic symptoms in carriers of the m.3243A>G mitochondrial DNA mutation.

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Goto Y et al. (1991) A new mtDNA mutation associated with mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS).

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Kirby DM et al. (2004) Mutations of the mitochondrial ND1 gene as a cause of MELAS.

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Danks RA et al. (1988) Mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS): adolescent onset with severe cerebral edema.

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Ravn K et al. (2001) An mtDNA mutation, 14453G-->A, in the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 6 associated with severe MELAS syndrome.

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Yoneda M et al. (1992) Marked replicative advantage of human mtDNA carrying a point mutation that causes the MELAS encephalomyopathy.

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Bataillard M et al. (2001) Atypical MELAS syndrome associated with a new mitochondrial tRNA glutamine point mutation.

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Melone MA et al. (2004) Revelation of a new mitochondrial DNA mutation (G12147A) in a MELAS/MERFF phenotype.

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Latkany P et al. (1999) Mitochondrial maculopathy: geographic atrophy of the macula in the MELAS associated A to G 3243 mitochondrial DNA point mutation.

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Moraes CT et al. (1992) The mitochondrial tRNA(Leu(UUR)) mutation in mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes (MELAS): genetic, biochemical, and morphological correlations in skeletal muscle.

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Ciafaloni E et al. (1992) MELAS: clinical features, biochemistry, and molecular genetics.

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Enter C et al. (1991) A specific point mutation in the mitochondrial genome of Caucasians with MELAS.

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Kobayashi Y et al. (1991) Respiration-deficient cells are caused by a single point mutation in the mitochondrial tRNA-Leu (UUR) gene in mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis, and strokelike episodes (MELAS).

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Janssen AJ et al. (2008) Muscle 3243A-->G mutation load and capacity of the mitochondrial energy-generating system.

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Costello DJ et al. (2009) Efficacy of lamotrigine in disabling myoclonus in a patient with an mtDNA A3243G mutation.

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OMIM.ORG article

Omim 540000 external link
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Orphanet article

Orphanet ID 206966 external link
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Wikipedia article

Wikipedia EN (MELAS_syndrome) external link
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