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A novel splice site mutation in the EYA1 gene in a Korean family with branchio-oto (BO) syndrome.
Acta oto-laryngologica - 1 Jun 2009
Kwon Min-Jung, Boo Sung Hyun, Kim Hee-Jin, Cho Yang-Sun, Chung Won-Ho, Hong Sung Hwa
Abstract excerpt
Branchio-oto-renal (BOR) and branchio-oto (BO) syndromes are autosomal dominant hereditary disorders characterized by the presence of hearing loss and branchial fistulae and cysts, with (BOR syndrome) or without (BO syndrome) renal malformations of varying degrees of severity. Mutations in the human homologous of the Drosophila eyes absent (EYA1) gene are frequently the cause of BOR/BO syndrome. Here we describe...
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