Occipital lobe and calf muscle energy metabolism were studied in vivo by magnetic resonance spectroscopy (31P-MRS) in four members of a family harbouring the mitochondrial DNA G3460A mutation causing Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON). Three siblings carried 100% mutated mitochondrial DNA (homoplasmy), while their mother had coexistence of mutated and wild-type mitochondrial DNA (hetero...

we studied 74 patients with lebers hereditary optic neuropathy (lhon) to investigate causative mtdna mutations (g3460a, g11778a, t14484c, g4459a) in iranian lhon patients. fifty two patients carried the mitochondrial dna (mtdna) g11778a mutation, while one had the t14484c mutation 4 patients had the g3460a mutation and one had the g14459a mutation. our results showed a similarity in the pattern...

lhon is a mitochondrial neurodegenerative disorder often manifesting itself in the second or third decade of life, and hence resulting in progressive central vision loss usually in a short period of 2-8 weeks within which different degrees of blindness may occur. etiologically, more than twenty missense mutations have been reported for lhon, amongst which the three mutations of g11778a, g3460a ...

BACKGROUND Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a maternally inherited form of retinal ganglion cell degeneration leading to optic atrophy in young adults. It is caused by three primary point mutations including G11778A, G3460A, and T14484C in the mitochondrial genome. These three mutations account for the majority of LHON cases and affect genes that encode for different subunits of mito...

PURPOSE Approximately 95% of patients who are diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) have one of three mitochondrial point mutations responsible for the disease, G3460A, G11778A, and T14484C. The purpose of this study was to develop a novel multiplex real-time amplification-refractory mutation system (ARMS) PCR combined with high-resolution melt curves to identify the individ...

Dear Editor, Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is an inherited disorder that causes visual loss predominantly in young men. More than 90% of LHON cases are due to one of the following three primary mitochondrial DNA point mutations: G3460A, G11778A, and T14484C.1 While the T14484C mutation is known to show milder pathogenicity and a better outcome than the other mutations,2 here we rep...

Leber's hereditary optic neuroretinopathy (LHON) is manifested as a bilateral acute or subacute loss of central vision due to optic atrophy. It is linked to point mutations of mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited maternally. The most common mitochondrial DNA point mutations associated with LHON are G3460A, G11778A and T14484C. These mutations are linked with the defects of subunits of the comp...

Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a common cause of bilateral optic nerve disease. The majority of LHON patients harbour one of three point mutations of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) complex I, or NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase (ND) genes (G11778A in ND4, G3460A in ND1, T14484C in ND6). As a consequence, screening for these mutations has become part of the routine clinical investiga...