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Mitochondrial mutation associated with nonsyndromic deafness.
American journal of otolaryngology - 1 Jan 2000
Fischel-Ghodsian N, Prezant T R, Fournier P, Stewart I A, Maw M
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: The first mutation associated with nonsyndromic deafness has recently been identified in pedigrees with susceptibility to aminoglycoside ototoxicity and in a large Arab-Israeli pedigree. The mutation is maternally transmitted, and is a nucleotide substitution in the mitochondrial 12S ribosomal RNA gene. A different sequence change, in the mitochondrial tRNA(Ser)(UCN)/COI gene, has been proposed as a...
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