Early diagnosis of Pearson syndrome in neonatal intensive care following rapid mitochondrial genome sequencing in tandem with exome sequencing.
Akesson LS, Eggers S, Love CJ, Chong B, Krzesinski EI, Brown NJ, Tan TY, Richmond CM, Thorburn DR, Christodoulou J, Hunter MF, Lunke S, Stark Z.
Akesson LS, et al.
Eur J Hum Genet. 2019 Dec;27(12):1821-1826. doi: 10.1038/s41431-019-0477-3. Epub 2019 Jul 29.
Eur J Hum Genet. 2019.
PMID: 31358953
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Mitochondrial genome sequencing identified a large mtDNA deletion in both infants, diagnosing Pearson syndrome within 74 and 55 h, respectively. Early diagnosis in the third week of life allowed the avoidance of a range of other investigations and appropriate treatm …
Mitochondrial genome sequencing identified a large mtDNA deletion in both infants, diagnosing Pearson syndrome within 74 and 5 …