Mitochondrial chromosome disorder

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• Synonyms

  • Mitochondrial hereditary disease
  • Mitochondrial cytopathy

• Effects

  • Calcification of basal ganglia
  • Impaired vertical saccades

• Parents

  • Genetic disease

• Children

  • Leber's optic atrophy
  • Kearns-Sayre syndrome
  • Myoclonic epilepsy and ragged red fibres
  • Mitochondrial myopathy encephalopathy lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes
  • Mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy
  • Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia
  • Alpers syndrome