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Common molecular etiology of nonsyndromic hearing loss in 484 patients of 3 ethnicities in northwest China.
Acta oto-laryngologica - 1 Jun 2015
Duan Shi-Hong, Zhu Yi-Ming, Wang Yan-Li, Guo Yu-Fen
Abstract excerpt
CONCLUSIONS: In the study population in northwest China, a total of 33.06% of deaf patients have inherited hearing impairment caused by GJB2, SLC26A4, and mtDNA 1555A>G mutations. The mutation frequencies of GJB2, SLC26A4, and mtDNA 1555A>G genes were 16.12%, 10.54%, and 6.4%, respectively, in our study cohort. Thus, screening is conventionally performed for GJB2, SLC26A4, and mtDNA 1555A>G in these populations....
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