Single gene variants causing deafness in Asian Indians.

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Congenital deafness is one of the common disorders, with some common genes accounting for most of the cases. One in 1000 children are born with sensorineural hearing loss, and of that 50% are hereditary. In the Mediterranean Europeans, 80% of the nonsyndromic recessive deafness is due to homozygous mutation in GJB2, the 35del G allele. InWestern population, the GJB2 variation have been found in up to 30-40%...

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