2 January 2017

Stofwisselkracht in collaboration with Ride4Kids and Join4Energy granted Saskia Koene financial support for her project entitled "Preparations for a future clinical trial in children with the m.3243A>G mutation: a pilot study".

In this project, preparations for a natural history study in this population will be performed by testing 10 selected outcomes measures in 10 patients with this mutation. The data provided by this study will be used to select clinically relevant and reliable endpoints for future studies.

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