Ball, Megan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9252-704X
Baker, Naomi
Lim, Sze Chern
Casauria, Sarah https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1442-6374
Lunke, Sebastian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7168-0723
Compton, Alison G. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2725-7055
Thorburn, David R. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7725-9470
Christodoulou, John https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8431-0641
Stark, Zornitza https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8640-1371
Funding for this research was provided by:
Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (PhD Top Up Scholarship)
Melbourne Academic Centre for Health - Clinician-Researcher Scholarship
Royal Children's Hospital Foundation - The Chair in Genomic Medicine
Article History
Received: 18 November 2025
Revised: 30 December 2025
Accepted: 9 February 2026
First Online: 26 February 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the revised Declaration of Helsinki and following the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council statement of ethical conduct in research involving humans. This study has Human Research Ethics Committee approval (QA/104560/RCHM-2024).