Lipomatosis Incidence and Characteristics in an Italian Cohort of Mitochondrial Patients

Lipomatosis Incidence and Characteristics in an Italian Cohort of Mitochondrial Patients

Lipomas have often been associated with mtDNA mutations and were mainly observed in patients with mutation in mitochondrial tRNAlysine which is also the most frequent mutation associated with MERRF. Up to date, no systematic studies have been developed in order to assess the incidence of lipomas in...

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Main Authors: Olimpia Musumeci, Emanuele Barca, Costanza Lamperti, Serenella Servidei, Giacomo Pietro Comi, Maurizio Moggio, Tiziana Mongini, Gabriele Siciliano, Massimiliano Filosto, Elena Pegoraro, Guido Primiano, Dario Ronchi, Liliana Vercelli, Daniele Orsucci, Luca Bello, Massimo Zeviani, Michelangelo Mancuso, Antonio Toscano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
multiple symmetrical lipomatosis
MERRF
mitochondrial myopathy
madelung's disease
brown fat
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2019.00160/full

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