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Whole-exome sequencing to decipher the genetic heterogeneity of hearing loss in a Chinese family with deaf by deaf mating.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Qing Jie, Yan Denise, Zhou Yuan, Liu Qiong, Wu Weijing, Xiao Zian, Liu Yuyuan, Liu Jia, Du Lilin, Xie Dinghua, Liu Xue Zhong
Abstract excerpt
Inherited deafness has been shown to have high genetic heterogeneity. For many decades, linkage analysis and candidate gene approaches have been the main tools to elucidate the genetics of hearing loss. However, this associated study design is costly, time-consuming, and unsuitable for small families. This is mainly due to the inadequate numbers of available affected individuals, locus heterogeneity, and...
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