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Screening Consanguineous Families for Hearing Loss Using the MiamiOtoGenes Panel.
Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers - 1 Oct 2020
Kannan-Sundhari Abhiraami, Yan Denise, Saeidi Kolsoum, Sahebalzamani Afsaneh, Blanton Susan H, Liu Xue Zhong
Abstract excerpt
Background: Hearing loss (HL) is one of the most common and genetically heterogeneous sensory disorders in humans. Genetic causes underlie 50-60% of all HL and the majority of these cases exhibit an autosomal recessive model of inheritance. Methods: In our study, we used our targeted custom MiamiOtoGenes panel of 180 HL-associated genes to screen 23 unrelated consanguineous Iranian families with at least two...
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