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Candidate locus for a nuclear modifier gene for maternally inherited deafness.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jun 2000
Bykhovskaya Y, Estivill X, Taylor K, Hang T, Hamon M, Casano R A, Yang H, Rotter J I, Shohat M, Fischel-Ghodsian N
Abstract excerpt
Maternally inherited deafness associated with the A1555G mutation in the mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene appears to require additional environmental or genetic changes for phenotypic expression. Aminoglycosides have been identified as one such environmental factor. In one large Arab-Israeli pedigree with congenital hearing loss in some of the family members with the A1555G mutation and with no...
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