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Searching the co-occurrence of pathogenic mutations for Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy and hearing loss in more than 26,000 whole mitochondrial genomes

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Pages 3399-3402 | Received 20 Dec 2014, Accepted 24 Jan 2015, Published online: 25 Feb 2015

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