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A biochemical basis for the inherited susceptibility to aminoglycoside ototoxicity.
Human molecular genetics - 22 Jul 2000
Guan M X, Fischel-Ghodsian N, Attardi G
Abstract excerpt
The A1555 G mutation in mitochondrial 12S rRNA has been found to be associated with non-syndromic deafness and aminoglycoside-induced deafness. The sensitivity to the aminoglycoside paromomycin has been analyzed in lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from five deaf individuals and five hearing individuals from an Arab-Israeli family carrying the A1555G mutation, and three married-in controls from the same family....
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