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We documented the presence of a newly described point mutation in the tRNALeu(UUR) gene of mitochondrial DNA in five postmortem tissues from a patient with MELAS syndrome. The mutation was heteroplasmic, but the percentage of mutant genomes was similar (79 to 88%) in both clinically affected and unaffected tissues.
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