Article
Mutations of human TMHS cause recessively inherited non-syndromic hearing loss.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Aug 2006
Shabbir M I, Ahmed Z M, Khan S Y, Riazuddin Saima, Waryah A M, Khan S N, Camps R D, Ghosh M, Kabra M, Belyantseva I A, Friedman T B, Riazuddin Sheikh
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Approximately half the cases of prelingual hearing loss are caused by genetic factors. Identification of genes causing deafness is a crucial first step in understanding the normal function of these genes in the auditory system. Recently, a mutant allele of Tmhs was reported to be associated with deafness and circling behaviour in the hurry-scurry mouse. Tmhs encodes a predicted tetraspan protein of...
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