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Novel OTOF pathogenic variant segregating with non-syndromic hearing loss in a consanguineous family from tribal Rajouri in Jammu and Kashmir.
International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology - 1 Mar 2020
Kuchay Raja A H, Mir Yaser Rafiq, Zeng Xue, Hassan Asima, Namba Kazunori, Tekin Mustafa
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hereditary hearing loss is characterized by a very high genetic heterogeneity. The OTOF (Locus: DFNB9), encoding otoferlin, is reported to be one of the major causes of non-syndromic hearing loss, and is also reported to be the most common cause of non-syndromic recessive auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder. METHODS: In this study, whole exome sequencing was employed for detection of novel...
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