“Your daughter’s genetic test results indicate a diagnosis of MERRF syndrome,” the doctor we’d never met before told us. He went on to explain that MERRF, or myoclonic epilepsy with ragged ...

And I didn’t know she had MERRF syndrome, a rare degenerative mitochondrial disease. Dalia was diagnosed with MERRF when she was five years old. I didn’t know, and wish I never had to learn ...

This time, it was unrecognizable. When my now 16-year-old daughter was 5, she was diagnosed with a rare degenerative mitochondrial disease, MERRF Syndrome. “Whatever symptoms she has ...

Salazar’s older sister, Perla, was born with a rare disorder that affects mobility and hearing, called MERRF syndrome. The 25-year-old has undergone close to a dozen surgeries followed by years ...

MERRF is most commonly caused by mutations in ... Symptoms include: Leigh syndrome is more often caused by nuclear mutations, but results from mitochondrial mutations in about 20% of cases ...

Salazar’s older sister, Perla, was born with a rare disorder that affects mobility and hearing, called MERRF syndrome. The 25-year-old has undergone close to a dozen surgeries followed by years ...

syndrome Myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers (MERRF) Syndrome Muscular dystrophies. Muscular dystrophies are characterized by progressive weakness in skeletal muscles. These types of ...

Salazar's older sister, Perla, was born with a rare disorder that affects mobility and hearing, called MERRF syndrome. The 25-year-old has undergone close to a dozen surgeries followed by years of ...

In both approved cases, the women have a genetic mutation that causes a condition called MERRF syndrome. Minutes from the HFEA’s approval meeting describe this as “a devastating, progressive ...