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Diagnostic outcomes of exome sequencing in patients with syndromic or non-syndromic hearing loss.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2018
Likar Tina, Hasanhodžić Mensuda, Teran Nataša, Maver Aleš, Peterlin Borut, Writzl Karin
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary hearing loss (HL) is a common sensory disorder, with an incidence of 1-2 per 1000 newborns, and has a genetic etiology in over 50% of cases. It occurs either as part of a syndrome or in isolation and is genetically very heterogeneous which poses a challenge for clinical and molecular diagnosis. We used exome sequencing to seek a genetic cause in a group of 56 subjects (49 probands) with HL: 32 with...
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