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Genetic Predisposition to Sporadic Congenital Hearing Loss in a Pediatric Population.
Scientific reports - 6 Apr 2017
Jung Jinsei, Lee Joon Suk, Cho Kyeong Jee, Yu Seyoung, Yoon Joo-Heon, Yung Gee Heon, Choi Jae Young
Abstract excerpt
Discriminating between inherited and non-inherited sporadic hearing loss is challenging. Here, we attempted to delineate genetic inheritance in simplex cases of severe-to-profound congenital hearing loss in Korean children. Variations in SLC26A4 and GJB2 in 28 children with bilateral severe-to-profound non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL) without familial history were analyzed using Sanger sequencing. Genetic...
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