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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Brown MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1715982 | biostudies-literature | 1997 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of human genetics 19971001 4
Nonsyndromic hearing loss (NSHL) is the most common type of hearing impairment in the elderly. Environmental and hereditary factors play an etiologic role, although the relative contribution of each is unknown. To date, 39 NSHL genes have been localized. Twelve produce autosomal dominant hearing loss, most frequently postlingual in onset and progressive in nature. We have ascertained a large, multigenerational family in which a gene for autosomal dominant NSHL is segregating. Affected individual ...[more]