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Hearing impairment and neurological dysfunction associated with a mutation in the mitochondrial tRNASer(UCN) gene.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Jan 1999
Verhoeven K, Ensink R J, Tiranti V, Huygen P L, Johnson D F, Schatteman I, Van Laer L, Verstreken M, Van de Heyning P, Fischel-Ghodsian N, Zeviani M, Cremers C W, Willems P J, Van Camp G
Abstract excerpt
We studied a large Dutch family with maternally inherited, progressive, sensorineural hearing loss in 27 patients. Only in a single family member was the hearing loss accompanied by neurological symptoms including ataxia and dysarthria. DNA analysis of the mitochondrial genome revealed the insertion of a C at nucleotide position 7472 in the tRNASer(UCN) gene (7472insC mutation). We determined the percentage of...
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