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Table 2 Overall diagnostic rate of the study

From: Wide diagnostic and genotypic spectrum in patients with suspected mitochondrial disease

 

No. of cases

No. of solved cases

Diagnostic rate, %

Testing method

mtDNA sequencing

80

6

7.5

mtDNA del/dup analysis

83

1

1.2

Targeted gene NGS (without further WES analysis)

9

3

33.3

WES

21

8

38.1

The age of disease onset

Pediatric (< 16 years)

58

13

22.4

Adult (> 16 years)

25

5

20.0

MDC scores

Definite MD (MDC score 8–12)

12

4

33.3

Probable MD (MDC score 5–7)

25

10

40.0

Possible MD (MDC score 2–4)

46

 4

8.7

Established disorder

Mitochondrial disease

83

11

13.3

Other disease (not related to primary mitochondrial dysfunction)

83

6

7.2

Both mitochondrial and other disease identified

83

1

1.2

Genome change

mtDNA

83

7

8.4

nDNA

83

10

12.0

mtDNA + nDNA

83

1

1.2

Total

83

18

21.7