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Hearing and vestibular deficits in the Coch(-/-) null mouse model: comparison to the Coch(G88E/G88E) mouse and to DFNA9 hearing and balance disorder.
Hearing research - 1 Feb 2011
Jones Sherri M, Robertson Nahid G, Given Shelly, Giersch Anne B S, Liberman M Charles, Morton Cynthia C
Abstract excerpt
Two mouse models, the Coch(G88E/G88E) or "knock-in" and the Coch(-/-) or "knock-out" (Coch null), have been developed to study the human late-onset, progressive, sensorineural hearing loss and vestibular dysfunction known as DFNA9. This disorder results from missense and in-frame deletion mutations in COCH (coagulation factor C homology), encoding cochlin, the most abundantly detected protein in the inner ear. We...
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