Gene: [0Mh3307/MTND1] NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (mitochondrial); Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON1?; MIM:535000?);

GEN

The gene length: 0.96 kb (956 bp).

PAT

Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a bilateral subacute optic neuropathy caused by mutations in the mitochondrial genome. Primary mutations are located at nucleotide positions 3460, 11778, and 14484 in genes encoding subunits of complex 1 of the respiratory chain. Molecular diagnosis has expanded the spectrum of the LHON phenotype and prompted investigation into optic neuropathies due to demyelinating disease, glaucoma, tobacco/alcohol amblyopia, and nutritional optic neuropathy (Kerrison-1997). Proposed determinants of disease include heteroplasmy, an X-linked vision loss susceptibility locus, environmental factors, and secondary"

HET

According to Wallace-1988 Leber's optic neuropathy has been considered to be caused by another mitochondrial gene mutations (GEM:0Mh10760/MTND4). However Howell-1991 partially argued against this conclusion: in pedigree observed by them a mutation was found only in one of six MTND genes - in the MTND1."

REL

GEM:0Mh3307/MTND1; GEM:0Mh4470/MTND2; GEM:0Mh10059/MTND3; GEM:0Mh10760/MTND4; GEM:0Mh10470/MTND4L; GEM:0Mh12337/MTND5; GEM:0Ml14673/MTND6."

REF

MUT,PAT "Howell N &: AJHG, 48, N5, 935-942, 1991
REV,PAT "Kerrison JB, Newman NJ: Clin Neurosci, 4, N5, 295-301, 1997
MUT,PAT,HET "Wallace DC &: Science, 242, 1427-1430, 1988

SWI

SWISSPROT: P03886

KEY

mito, neu, eye, mtbd

CLA

coding, basic

LOC

0M H3307-4262

MIM

MIM: 516000

EZN

ENZYME: 1.6.5.3