Genetic Evidence for Elevated Pathogenicity of Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Increasing clinical and biochemical evidence implicate mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but little is known about the biological basis for this connection. A possible cause of ASD is the genetic variation in the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence, w...

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Main Authors: Yiqin Wang, Martin Picard, Zhenglong Gu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-10-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5085253?pdf=render