[The presupposition of relationship between MS and mitochondrial disorders is due to predominant maternal transmission of MS in affected parent-child pairs, pathoaetiological role of respiratory chain dysfunction in multisystem disorders and important role of it in neurodegenerative disorders, a number of patients such as LHON or other mtDNA abnormality with developed neurological symptoms indistinguishable from MS and similarity of clinical symptoms in mitochondrial disorders to those of MS.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE