. . . . . . . . . . . . "[Three pathogenic mutations (positions 11778/ND4, 3460/ND1 and 14484/ND6) account for the majority of LHON cases and they affect genes that encode for different subunits of mitochondrial complex I. Excitotoxic injury to retinal ganglion cells and the optic nerve has been previously hypothesized, especially given the high susceptibility of this neural cell type to glutamate toxicity.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2013-07-24"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations manually curated."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - CURATED"@en . "2014-10-02T12:32:09+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v2.1.0.0" . "v2.1.0" .