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Usher Syndrome in the Inner Ear: Etiologies and Advances in Gene Therapy.
International journal of molecular sciences - 10 Apr 2021
de Joya Evan M, Colbert Brett M, Tang Pei-Ciao, Lam Byron L, Yang Jun, Blanton Susan H, Dykxhoorn Derek M, Liu Xuezhong
Abstract excerpt
Hearing loss is the most common sensory disorder with ~466 million people worldwide affected, representing about 5% of the population. A substantial portion of hearing loss is genetic. Hearing loss can either be non-syndromic, if hearing loss is the only clinical manifestation, or syndromic, if the hearing loss is accompanied by a collage of other clinical manifestations. Usher syndrome is a syndromic form of...
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