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Genome-Wide Association Study of Chronic Dizziness in the Elderly Identifies Loci Implicating MLLT10, BPTF, LINC01224, and ROS1.
Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO - 1 Dec 2023
Clifford Royce, Munro Daniel, Dochtermann Daniel, Devineni Poornima, Pyarajan Saiju, Telese Francesca, Palmer Abraham A, Mohammadi Pejman, Friedman Rick
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PURPOSE: Chronic age-related imbalance is a common cause of falls and subsequent death in the elderly and can arise from dysfunction of the vestibular system, an elegant neuroanatomical group of pathways that mediates human perception of acceleration, gravity, and angular head motion. Studies indicate that 27-46% of the risk of age-related chronic imbalance is genetic; nevertheless, the underlying genes remain...
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