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A 4-bp insertion in the eya-homologous region (eyaHR) of EYA4 causes hearing impairment in a Hungarian family linked to DFNA10.
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) - 1 Oct 2002
Pfister Markus, Tóth Tímea, Thiele Holger, Haack Birgit, Blin Nikolaus, Zenner Hans-Peter, Sziklai István, Nürnberg Peter, Kupka Susan
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hereditary hearing impairment (HHI) is a heterogeneous class of disorders that shows various patterns of inheritance and involves a multitude of different genes. Mutations in the EYA4 gene are responsible for postlingual, progressive, autosomal dominant hearing loss at the DFNA10 locus. EYA4 is orthologous to the Drosophila gene eya ("eyes absent"), a key regulator of eye formation. EYA4 plays an...
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