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Novel digenic inheritance of PCDH15 and USH1G underlies profound non-syndromic hearing impairment.
BMC medical genetics - 20 Jul 2018
Schrauwen Isabelle, Chakchouk Imen, Acharya Anushree, Liaqat Khurram, Irfanullah, Nickerson Deborah A, Bamshad Michael J, Shah Khadim, Ahmad Wasim, Leal Suzanne M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Digenic inheritance is the simplest model of oligenic disease. It can be observed when there is a strong epistatic interaction between two loci. For both syndromic and non-syndromic hearing impairment, several forms of digenic inheritance have been reported. METHODS: We performed exome sequencing in a Pakistani family with profound non-syndromic hereditary hearing impairment to identify the genetic...
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