title: [Detection of a mutation in mitochondrial DNA in a family with sensorineural deafness and diabetes mellitus as the predominant clinical features].
abstract: An A to G transition at nucleotide 3,243 in the tRNA(Leu(UUR)) gene of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been suggested to be the disease-related mutation for MELAS (mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes). Recently, the same mutation has also been found in several pedigrees with maternally inherited diabetes mellitus and sensorineural deafness. We report here a family showing the association of deafness and diabetes mellitus, as the predominant clinical features, with this mutation. The mutation was detected by restriction-enzyme analysis of the relevant PCR-amplified segment of the mtDNA, in two generations. In this family, it is noteworthy that two members with the mutation had some symptoms of MELAS such as short stature, seizures and mental retardation and that one had no clinical symptoms though the mtDNA mutation was identified in his blood. The findings in this family demonstrate the diversity of clinical expression of the mtDNA mutation and suggest that a combination of sensorineural deafness and diabetes mellitus is only one typical presentation of the various phenotypic features caused by the 3,243 mutation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Jichi Medical School, Tochigi.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tamagawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hagiwara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ishida
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kitamura
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nishizawa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001483:Base Sequence; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D003638:Deafness / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics*; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017354:Point Mutation; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial