The lab analyst performs a genomic sequence analysis panel to evaluate the entire mitochondrial genome from the patient specimen for large deletions, which are missing sections of DNA, that relate to nerve or muscle pathologies such as those that the code descriptor lists. The test includes heteroplasmy detection, if the analyst performs it, which means identifying if some mitochondrial DNA exhibits mutation, while some remains normal.
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