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Clinical studies of families with hearing loss attributable to mutations in the connexin 26 gene (GJB2/DFNB1)
Pediatrics - 1 Mar 1999
Cohn E S, Kelley P M, Fowler T W, Gorga M P, Lefkowitz D M, Kuehn H J, Schaefer G B, Gobar L S, Hahn F J, Harris D J, Kimberling W J
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OBJECTIVE: This retrospective study describes the phenotype associated with the single most common cause of genetic hearing loss. The frequency of childhood deafness is estimated at 1/500. Half of this hearing loss is genetic and approximately 80% of genetic hearing loss is nonsyndromic and inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. Approximately 50% of childhood nonsyndromic recessive hearing loss is caused by...
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