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Retinitis pigmentosa and progressive sensorineural hearing loss caused by a C12258A mutation in the mitochondrial MTTS2 gene.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Apr 1999
Mansergh F C, Millington-Ward S, Kennan A, Kiang A S, Humphries M, Farrar G J, Humphries P, Kenna P F
Abstract excerpt
Family ZMK is a large Irish kindred that segregates progressive sensorineural hearing loss and retinitis pigmentosa. The symptoms in the family are almost identical to those observed in Usher syndrome type III. Unlike that in Usher syndrome type III, the inheritance pattern in this family is compatible with dominant, X-linked dominant, or maternal inheritance. Prior linkage studies had resulted in exclusion of...
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