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SUBMITTER: Plantinga RF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2504577 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Plantinga Rutger F RF de Brouwer Arjan P M AP Huygen Patrick L M PL Kunst Henricus P M HP Kremer Hannie H Cremers Cor W R J CW
Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO 20060425 2
A novel TECTA mutation, p.R1890C, was found in a Dutch family with nonsyndromic autosomal dominant sensorineural hearing impairment. In early life, presumably congenital, hearing impairment occurred in the midfrequency range, amounting to about 40 dB at 1 kHz. Speech recognition was good with all phoneme recognition scores exceeding 90%. An intact horizontal vestibuloocular reflex was found in four tested patients. The missense mutation is located in the zona pellucida (ZP) domain of alpha-tecto ...[more]