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Hereditary hearing loss: from human mutation to mechanism.
Hearing research - 1 Nov 2011
Lenz Danielle R, Avraham Karen B
Abstract excerpt
The genetic heterogeneity of hereditary hearing loss is thus far represented by hundreds of genes encoding a large variety of proteins. Mutations in these genes have been discovered for patients with different modes of inheritance and types of hearing loss, ranging from syndromic to non-syndromic and mild to profound. In many cases, the mechanisms whereby the mutations lead to hearing loss have been partly...
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