1                                              Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS) is a sporadic multisystem di

2 o devastating multi-system syndromes such as Kearns-Sayre syndrome.

3 ciated with three major clinical conditions: Kearns-Sayre syndrome, a multisystem disorder; Pearson s

4                                 For example, Kearns-Sayre syndrome is caused by a single heteroplasmi

5 n affect renal (tubular) tissues, such as in Kearns-Sayre and Leigh syndromes.

6 aled a 2,532-bp deletion of the type seen in Kearns-Sayre syndrome as well as a heteroplasmic A3243G

7 Since most mtDNA-related diseases, including Kearns-Sayre syndrome, are recessive, only a few wild-ty

8         A 35-year-old woman with features of Kearns-Sayre syndrome consisting of progressive ptosis,

9 hronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, Kearns Sayre syndrome, or Pearson's syndrome.

10  of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) cause sporadic Kearns-Sayre syndrome, a fatal multisystem disorder, in

11 ssive disorder brain, at levels greater than Kearns-Sayre Syndrome muscle.

12 rs characterised by a complex phenotype; the Kearns-Sayre syndrome, for example, can include cardiac

13 nt in mitochondrial genomes of patients with Kearns-Sayre or Pearson syndromes, certain ophthalmic my

14              Mitochondria from patients with Kearns-Sayre syndrome harboring large-scale rearrangemen