| Abbreviation | Meaning |
| ATP6 | Mitochondrially encoded ATP synthase membrane subunit 6 |
| CIs | Confidence Intervals |
| DNA | Deoxyribonucleic Acid |
| I2 | I-squared (measure of heterogeneity in meta-analysis) |
| INMEGEN | Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica |
| JBI | Joanna Briggs Institute |
| MLASA | Myopathy, Lactic Acidosis and Sideroblastic Anemia |
| MLASA2 | Myopathy, Lactic Acidosis and Sideroblastic Anemia Type 2 |
| Mt-TyrRS | Mitochondrial Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase |
| NGS | Next-Generation Sequencing |
| n.d. | Not Determined |
| OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| PLOGIT | Logit transformation used in meta-analyses |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| PROSPERO | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| PFT | Freeman–Tukey double arcsine transformation |
| PUS1 | Pseudouridine Synthase 1 gene |
| PV | Pathogenic Variant |
| REM | Random-Effects Model |
| RT-PCR | Reverse Transcriptase–Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| tRNA | Transfer Ribonucleic Acid |
| TyrRS | Tyrosyl-tRNA Synthetase |
| WES | Whole Exome Sequencing |
| WGS | Whole-Genome Sequencing |