What KEARNS-SAYRE SYNDROME means: Kearns-Sayre Syndrome - (KSS) is a disease caused by a 5,000 base deletion in the mitochondrial DNA. Kearnes-Sayre syndrome starts before the age of 20. It is a rare genetic disease in that it can be heteroplasmic, that is, more than one genome can be in a cell at any given time. Unlike most mitochondrial diseases, it is not maternally inherited. Rather, it occurs sporadically.
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