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A truncating mutation in GPSM2 is associated with recessive non-syndromic hearing loss.
Clinical genetics - 1 Mar 2012
Yariz K O, Walsh T, Akay H, Duman D, Akkaynak A C, King M-C, Tekin M
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary deafness is a genetically heterogeneous phenotype for which more than 100 genomic loci have been identified thus far. By analysis of a consanguineous Palestinian family, GPSM2 was recently discovered to be the cause of autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss DFNB82. Here, we report a second truncating mutation, GPSM2 p.Q562X, identified via autozygosity mapping in a consanguineous Turkish...
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