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The Clinical Details of MYH9-Related Disease and DFNA17 in a Large Japanese Hearing Loss Cohort.
Genes - 29 Jan 2026
Goto Shinichi, Sasaki Akira, Nishio Shin-Ya, Shinkawa Chikako, Oda Kiyoshi, Wada Tetsuro, Ishikawa Kotaro, Ikezono Tetsuo, Oka Shin-Ichiro, Nishiyama Nobuhiro, Ito Taku, Kobayshi Marina, Kumakawa Kozo, Sakuma Naoko, Nakanishi Hiroshi, Morimoto Chihiro, Uehara Natsumi, Okazaki Testuya, Sugahara Kazuma, Nakamura Takeshi, Usami Shin-Ichi
Abstract excerpt
Background/Objectives: MYH9 gene variants cause MYH9-related disease (MYH9-RD), which is also known as Epstein syndrome, Fechtner syndrome, May-Hegglin anomaly, and Sebastian syndrome. MYH9-RD is characterized by sensorineural hearing loss, macrothrombocytopenia, thrombocytopenia, hematuria/proteinuria, glomerulonephritis, cataracts purpura, and mucosal bleeding. In addition, the MYH9 gene is also known to be...
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