Vona, Barbara http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6719-3447
Maroofian, Reza
Bellacchio, Emanuele
Najafi, Maryam
Thompson, Kyle
Alahmad, Ahmad
He, Langping
Ahangari, Najmeh
Rad, Abolfazl
Shahrokhzadeh, Sima
Bahena, Paulina
Mittag, Falk
Traub, Frank
Movaffagh, Jebrail
Amiri, Nafise
Doosti, Mohammad
Boostani, Reza
Shirzadeh, Ebrahim
Haaf, Thomas
Diodato, Daria
Schmidts, Miriam
Taylor, Robert W.
Karimiani, Ehsan Ghayoor
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust (203105/Z/16/Z)
MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases (G0601943)
UK NHS Highly Specialised "Rare Mitochondrial Disorders of Adults and Children" Service
The Lily Foundation
Kuwait Civil Service Commission
University of Würzburg Open Access Publishing
H2020 European Research Council (716344)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG CRC1140 KIDGEM)
Radboudumc Nijmegen
Article History
Received: 1 May 2018
Accepted: 25 October 2018
First Online: 12 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Ethics Committees at the University of Würzburg (ID: 46/15) and Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (ID: 213917). Informed written consent from the proband and his parents (Family 1) and the parents and three females (Family 2) was obtained prior to initiating our investigation.
: Written consent for publication of medical data and genetic testing results was obtained from the proband and parents in Family 1, as well as the parents and three females in family 2.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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