Article
[Genetic aspects of congenital sensorineural hearing loss].
Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie - 1 Aug 2012
Blanchard M, Thierry B, Marlin S, Denoyelle F
Abstract excerpt
Hearing loss is the most common sensory disability with an incidence of one over 1000 newborns. Hearing loss may be caused by environmental and genetic factors; inherited causes are assumed in two thirds of cases. There is a great clinical and genetic heterogenicity. All inheritance modes have been described. Mutations in the GJB2 gene, which encodes connexin 26, are mainly responsible for sensorineural deafness...
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