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Ush1c216A knock-in mouse survives Katrina.
Mutation research - 1 Mar 2007
Lentz Jennifer, Pan Fuming, Ng San San, Deininger Prescott, Keats Bronya
Abstract excerpt
Usher syndrome is the most common cause of inherited deafness found in combination with blindness. All Usher patients suffer progressive retinitis pigmentosa, with the degree of hearing impairment and the presence or absence of vestibular function differing among subtypes. A cryptic splice site mutation (216G-->A) in exon 3 of the USH1C gene on chromosome 11p, which encodes a PDZ-domain protein, harmonin, was...
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