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Spectrum of genetic variants in moderate to severe sporadic hearing loss in Pakistan.
Scientific reports - 17 Jul 2020
Ramzan Memoona, Bashir Rasheeda, Salman Midhat, Mujtaba Ghulam, Sobreira Nara, Witmer P Dane, Naz Sadaf
Abstract excerpt
Hearing loss affects 380 million people worldwide due to environmental or genetic causes. Determining the cause of deafness in individuals without previous family history of hearing loss is challenging and has been relatively unexplored in Pakistan. We investigated the spectrum of genetic variants in hearing loss in a cohort of singleton affected individuals born to consanguineous parents. Twenty-one individuals...
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