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Unraveling the complex genetic landscape of OTOF-related hearing loss: a deep dive into cryptic variants and haplotype phasing.
Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) - 9 May 2025
Lin Pei-Hsuan, Tsai Cheng-Yu, Chiang Yu-Ting, Ho Chang-Han, Lu Yue-Sheng, Hsu Jacob Shu-Jui, Cheng Yen-Fu, Tsai Shih-Feng, Hsu Chuan-Jen, Chen Pei-Lung, Wu Chen-Chi
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Pathogenic variants in OTOF are a major cause of auditory synaptopathy. However, challenges remain in interpreting OTOF variants, including difficulties in confirming haplotype phasing using traditional short-read sequencing (SRS) due to the large gene size, the potential incomplete penetrance of certain variants, and difficulties in assessing variants at non-canonical splice sites. This study aims to...
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- Humans
- Haplotypes
- Female
- Male
- Membrane Proteins
- Adult
