New sequencing technologies enable to find the molecular diagnosis of patients with mitochondrial complex I deficiency. However, the large number of detected variants per individual makes the identification of the disease causing mutations difficult. The scope of this thesis was to establish an assay confirming the causal role of postulated pathogenic alleles. The analysis of three different genes revealed the suitability of the established assay and the disease causing potential of mutations in one known and two new candidate genes for isolated complex I deficiency could be demonstrated.
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New sequencing technologies enable to find the molecular diagnosis of patients with mitochondrial complex I deficiency. However, the large number of detected variants per individual makes the identification of the disease causing mutations difficult. The scope of this thesis was to establish an assay confirming the causal role of postulated pathogenic alleles. The analysis of three different genes revealed the suitability of the established assay and the disease causing potential of mutations in...
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