coenzyme Q10 deficiency

An autosomal recessive disorder (OMIM:607426) with three main clinical phenotypes:
(1) Ataxic form with cerebellar atrophy;
(2) Infantile encephalomyopathic form with renal dysfunction; and
(3) Predominantly myopathic form with CNS involvement.

Molecular pathology
Defects of APTX on chromosome 9p13.3, which encodes aprataxin (a DNA-binding protein involved in single- and double-stranded DNA break repair and base excision repair), cause coenzyme Q10 deficiency.

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Recent studies have found that T2DM patients have significantly lower levels of coenzyme Q10 than healthy people [1, 14-16], which indicates that coenzyme Q10 deficiency may reduce the organism's ability to counter hyperglycemia-induced oxidative stress in T2DM [17, 18].

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The researchers concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove the etiologic role of coenzyme Q10 deficiency in statin-associated myopathy.

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