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Inherited mitochondrial variants are not a major cause of age-related hearing impairment in the European population.
Mitochondrion - 1 Sept 2011
Bonneux S, Fransen E, Van Eyken E, Van Laer L, Huyghe J, Van de Heyning P, Voets A, Gerards M, Stassen A P M, Hendrickx A T M, Smeets H J M, Van Camp G
Abstract excerpt
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations have been implicated in various age-related diseases. To further clarify the role of mtDNA variants in age-related hearing impairment (ARHI), we determined the DNA sequence of the entire mitochondrial genome of 400 individuals using the Affymetrix Human Mitochondrial Resequencing Array. These were the 200 worst hearing and the 200 best hearing from a collection of 947 Belgian...
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