Identification of a hot spot for microdeletions in patients with X- linked deafness type 3 (DFN3) 900 kb proximal to the DFN3 gene POU3F4

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Small mutations in the POU domain gene POU3F4 were recently shown to cause X-linked deafness type 3 (DFN3) in nine unrelated males. The POU3F4 gene was found to be located outside four of five deletions associated with DFN3. Two of these deletions were situated more than 400 kb proximal to POU3F4. Employing PCR analysis of sequence tagged sites from this region we initially identified novel deletions in two DFN3...

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