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DFNB49 is an important cause of non-syndromic deafness in Czech Roma patients but not in the general Czech population.
Clinical genetics - 1 Dec 2012
Šafka Brožková D, Laštůvková J, Štěpánková H, Krůtová M, Trková M, Myška P, Seeman P
Abstract excerpt
Due to endogamy, the Roma have a higher risk for autosomal recessive (AR) disorders. We used homozygosity mapping on single-nucleotide polymorphism chips in one Czech Roma consanguineous family with non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL). The second largest homozygous region in a deaf patient was mapped to the previously reported DFNB49 region. The MARVELD2 gene was recently reported as a causal gene for NSHL DFNB49....
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