. . . . . . . "[The occurrence of optic neuropathy in patients with MS-like disorders who carry one of the pathogenetically significant LHON mutations as well as the higher incidence of maternal transmission in familial cases of MS support the hypothesis that mitochondrial genes may be implicated in susceptibility to MS. We sequenced the entire mtDNA of six children with MS who developed optic neuritis as early and prominent visual involvement.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2017-02-19"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2017-10-17T13:14:48+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v5.0.0.0" . "v5.0.0" .