Lifetime risk of autosomal recessive mitochondrial disorders calculated from genetic databases

Background: Mitochondrial disorders are a group of rare diseases, caused by nuclear or mitochondrial DNA mutations. Their marked clinical and genetic heterogeneity as well as referral and ascertainment biases render phenotype-based prevalence estimations difficult. Here we calculated the lifetime ri...

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Main Authors: Jing Tan, Matias Wagner, Sarah L. Stenton, Tim M. Strom, Saskia B. Wortmann, Holger Prokisch, Thomas Meitinger, Konrad Oexle, Thomas Klopstock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-04-01
Series:EBioMedicine
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396420301055