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. 2025 May 2:15:Doc03.
doi: 10.3205/oc000251. eCollection 2025.

The m.3243A>G variant affects not only islet, hair, or retinal ganglion cells, but all cells

Josef Finsterer  1
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The m.3243A>G variant affects not only islet, hair, or retinal ganglion cells, but all cells

Josef Finsterer. GMS Ophthalmol Cases. .
No abstract available

Keywords: MELAS; m.3243A>G; maternally inherited diabetes and deafness; mtDNA; retinopathy.

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