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Two large Spanish pedigrees with nonsyndromic sensorineural deafness and the mtDNA mutation at nt 1555 in the 12s rRNA gene: evidence of heteroplasmy.
Neurology - 1 Feb 1997
el-Schahawi M, López de Munain A, Sarrazin A M, Shanske A L, Basirico M, Shanske S, DiMauro S
Abstract excerpt
We describe two unrelated Spanish families with isolated sensorineural hearing loss. In both pedigrees, the deafness was transmitted maternally, which suggested a mitochondrial, DNA (mtDNA) defect. Within the same pedigree, some relatives showed aminoglycoside-induced deafness, whereas others wer...
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