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The syndrome characteristically presents symmetric necrotizing lesions in the basal ganglia, brainstem, cerebellum, thalamus, and spinal cord on cranial magnetic resonance imaging. To date, more than 85 genes are known to be associated with Leigh syndrome. Here, we present a rare case of a child who developed Leigh syndrome due to pathogenic variants of <jats:italic>NDUFAF6<\/jats:italic>, which encodes an assembly factor of complex I, a respiratory chain subunit. A targeted next-generation sequencing analysis related to mitochondrial disease revealed a missense variant (NM_152416.4:c.371T &amp;gt; C; p.Ile124Thr) and a frameshift variant (NM_152416.4:c.233_242del; p.Leu78GInfs*10) inherited biparentally. 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