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Hereditary etiology of non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
PeerJ - 1 Jan 2023
Petrova Nika, Tebieva Inna, Kadyshev Vitaly, Getoeva Zalina, Balinova Natalia, Marakhonov Andrey, Vasilyeva Tatyana, Ginter Evgeny, Kutsev Sergey, Zinchenko Rena
Abstract excerpt
More than 50% of congenital hearing loss is hereditary, in which the majority form is non-syndromic. In this study we estimate the most prevalent pathogenic genetic changes in an Ossetian cohort of patients. This is useful for local public health officials to promote genetic counseling of affected families with regard to high allele frequencies of prevalent pathogenic variants and assortative mating in the...
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