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Characteristics of hearing loss in HDR (hypoparathyroidism, sensorineural deafness, renal dysplasia) syndrome.
Audiology & neuro-otology - 1 Jan 2006
van Looij Marjolein A J, Meijers-Heijboer Hanne, Beetz Rolf, Thakker Rajesh V, Christie Paul T, Feenstra Lou W, van Zanten Bert G A
Abstract excerpt
Haploinsufficiency of the zinc finger transcription factor GATA3 causes the triad of hypoparathyroidism, deafness and renal dysplasia, known by its acronym HDR syndrome. The purpose of the current study was to describe in detail the auditory phenotype in human HDR patients and compare these to audiometrical and histological data previously described in a mouse model of this disease. Pure tone audiometry, speech...
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