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A founder TMIE mutation is a frequent cause of hearing loss in southeastern Anatolia.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jun 2009
Sirmaci A, Oztürkmen-Akay H, Erbek S, Incesulu A, Duman D, Taşir-Yilmaz S, Ozdağ H, Tekin M
Abstract excerpt
Using Affymetrix 10K arrays, we searched for regions of homozygosity in 51 Turkish families including at least three members with either congenital or prelingual autosomal recessive non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss (ARNSSNHL), and identified four families whose deafness mapped to the DFNB6 locus on 3p21 containing the TMIE gene. Mutation analysis revealed the p.R84W mutation in all four families....
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