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MELAS (Mitochondrial Encephalopathy, Lactic Acidosis, and Stroke-like episodes) is one of the family of mitochondrial diseases, which also include MIDD (maternally inherited diabetes and deafness), MERRF syndrome, and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy.
Leigh syndrome is a neurological condition that most commonly presents within the first year of life. These children experience a progressive decline in mental and physical abilities, usually leading to death within 2 to 3 years, due to difficulty breathing. In rare cases, symptoms may not emerge until adulthood and progress at a slower rate.
Multiple mtDNA abnormalities exist which cause CPEO. One mutation is located in a conserved region of mitochondrial tRNA at nucleotide 3243 in which there is an A to G nucleotide transition. This mutation is associated with both CPEO and mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, lactic acidosis, and stroke-like episodes (MELAS). [4]
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Diabetes and deafness (DAD) or maternally inherited diabetes and deafness (MIDD) or mitochondrial diabetes is a subtype of diabetes which is caused from a mutation in mitochondrial DNA, which consists of a circular genome.
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Leigh syndrome, subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy [6] after normal development the disease usually begins late in the first year of life, although onset may occur in adulthood; a rapid decline in function occurs and is marked by seizures, altered states of consciousness, dementia, ventilatory failure