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Twelve novel myosin VIIA mutations in 34 patients with Usher syndrome type I: confirmation of genetic heterogeneity.
Human mutation - 1 Jan 1999
Janecke A R, Meins M, Sadeghi M, Grundmann K, Apfelstedt-Sylla E, Zrenner E, Rosenberg T, Gal A
Abstract excerpt
Usher syndrome is a heterogeneous autosomal recessive trait and the most common cause of hereditary deaf-blindness. Usher syndrome type I (USH1) is characterised by profound congenital sensorineural hearing loss, vestibular dysfunction, and prepubertal onset of retinitis pigmentosa. Of the at least six different loci for USH1, USH1B maps on chromosome 11q13, and the MYO7A gene has been shown to be defective in...
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