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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mitochondrion. 2009 Jun 6;9(5):340–345. doi: 10.1016/j.mito.2009.05.002

Table 1.

Premature termination mutations in the POLG gene and associated disease.

Amino Acid Substitution DNA mutation Disease Genetics Reference
Q68X 202 c→t (exon 2) Alpers Found in trans with A467T (Wong et al., 2008)
W235X 705 g→a (exon 3) Myocerebrohepato-pathy syndrome Found in trans with A467T (de Vries et al., 2006)
T326fsX387 975–976 ins c (exon 4) Alpers Found in trans with A467T (Naimi et al., 2006)
R374X 1120 c→t (exon 5) Alpers Found in trans with A467T. (Ashley et al., 2008)
L424GfsX28 (CT)deletion-452X 1270–1271 del ct (exon 7) Alpers Found in trans with A467T (Wong et al., 2008)
PEO Sporadic Found in trans with G431V (Agostino et al., 2003)
T452X 1356 t→g (exon 7) PEO Sporadic (Hudson et al., 2006)
R709X 2125 c→t (exon 12) PEO Sporadic, Found in trans with T251I–P587L (Del Bo et al., 2003; Di Fonzo et al., 2003)
Q715X 2143 c→t (exon 12) Alpers Found in trans with A467T (Wong et al., 2008)
c. 2157+5_+6 2157 gc→ ag (exon 12) Alpers Found in trans with A467T (Wong et al., 2008)
2354Gins at G785 2354 ins G STOP @ codon 806 (exon 14) arPEO Found in trans with T251I (Lamantea et al., 2002)
c. 2480+1 2480+1 g→a splice (exon 15) Alpers Found in trans with W748S–E1143G (Wong et al., 2008)
IVS15-9-c.2485del 12bp 2485 del 12bp (exon 16) Alpers Found in trans with A467T. Splice site mutation 3'exon15/intron junction, (Horvath et al., 2006)
E873X 2617 g→t (exon 17) Alpers Found in trans with A467T (Ashley et al., 2008; Chan et al., 2005b; Naviaux and Nguyen, 2004; Naviaux and Nguyen, 2005)
L965X 2894 t→g (exon 18) arPEO Found in cis with E1143G and in trans with R627Q–Q1236H (Horvath et al., 2006)
W1020X 3057 g→a (exon 19) Alpers Found in trans with A467T (Nguyen et al., 2005)
3482 +2T to C 3482 +2t’s splice at intron 21 (exon 21) Alpers Exon21/Intron21 splice site mutation at a.a. 1161. Found in trans with A467T (Ferrari et al., 2005; Horvath et al., 2006)
L1173fsX 3518 ins gact, fs in exon 22 (exon 22) Alpers Found in trans with A467T (Nguyen et al., 2006)
Y1210fs1216X 3630 ins c (exon 22) Alpers Found in trans with W748S–E1143G, Mutation causes frameshift to stop at a.a. 1225 (Ferrari et al., 2005; Spinazzola et al., 2009)