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Pathogenic substitution of IVS15 + 5G > A in SLC26A4 in patients of Okinawa Islands with enlarged vestibular aqueduct syndrome or Pendred syndrome.
BMC medical genetics - 24 May 2013
Ganaha Akira, Kaname Tadashi, Yanagi Kumiko, Naritomi Kenji, Tono Tetsuya, Usami Shin-ichi, Suzuki Mikio
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BACKGROUND: Pendred syndrome (PS) and nonsyndromic hearing loss associated with enlarged vestibular aqueduct (EVA) are caused by SLC26A4 mutations. The Okinawa Islands are the southwestern-most islands of the Japanese archipelago. And ancestral differences have been reported between people from O...
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