Article
Hearing loss due to the mitochondrial A1555G mutation in Italian families.
American journal of medical genetics - 12 Oct 1998
Casano R A, Bykhovskaya Y, Johnson D F, Hamon M, Torricelli F, Bigozzi M, Fischel-Ghodsian N
Abstract excerpt
Six Italian families with familial nonsyndromic hearing loss consistent with a maternal pattern of inheritance were analyzed for mitochondrial mutations. The three known mitochondrial mutations associated with nonsyndromic hearing loss were investigated by polymerase chain reaction amplification, followed by restriction fragment length analysis or DNA sequencing. The A7445G mutation and C7472 insertion were not...
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