Robert also described how rare diseases such as POLG mitochondrial disease are often difficult to recognize as "POLG disease causes such a wide range of symptoms and affects so many different ...

Causes: POLG-related diseases are caused by several hundred different mutations in the POLG gene. This gene encodes a protein in mitochondria, called DNA polymerase gamma (pol γ), which is needed to ...

The son of Prince Robert of Luxembourg and Princess Julie of Nassau, Prince Frederik, has died in Paris the age of 22 due to a rare genetic disorder – POLG Mitochondrial disease. Frederik was ...

Prince Frederik, 22, died from a mitochondrial disease known as PolG, his father, Prince Robert of Luxembourg, announced on the website of his son's foundation, the POLG Foundation. "Frederik ...

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Prince Frederik of Luxembourg has died at the age of 22 from POLG mitochondrial disease ... called the alpha subunit, of a protein called polymerase gamma, according to the National Library ...

Affected populations: POLG-related diseases are a group of rare, incurable conditions caused by inherited gene mutations. These disease-causing mutations are carried by up to 2% of people of ...