Article
Mitochondrial deafness.
Annals of medicine - 1 Dec 1997
Jacobs H T
Abstract excerpt
Hearing impairment is a common disorder, largely genetic in origin, and showing classical features of a heterogeneous genetic disease. Up to 100 independently acting nuclear genes are involved in the disorder, of which around 30 have been mapped, but only a handful identified. Mutations in mitochondrial DNA also play a significant role in both syndromic and nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing impairment....
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