[The clinical relevance of maintaining a finely tuned balance between mitochondrial fusion and fission processes is underscored by the fact that the pathogenesis of certain hereditary neurodegenerative disorders such as autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) and Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy type 2A (CMT2A) can now be linked to mutations in genes encoding mediators of mitochondrial fusion.]. 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