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SUBMITTER: Gao X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3653921 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gao Xue X Su Yu Y Guan Li-Ping LP Yuan Yong-Yi YY Huang Sha-Sha SS Lu Yu Y Wang Guo-Jian GJ Han Ming-Yu MY Yu Fei F Song Yue-Shuai YS Zhu Qing-Yan QY Wu Jing J Dai Pu P
PloS one 20130514 5
Hereditary nonsyndromic hearing loss is highly heterogeneous and most patients with a presumed genetic etiology lack a specific diagnosis. It has been estimated that several hundred genes may be associated with this sensory deficit in humans. Here, we identified compound heterozygous mutations in the TMC1 gene as the cause of recessively inherited sensorineural hearing loss by using whole-exome sequencing in a family with two deaf siblings. Sanger sequencing confirmed that both siblings inherite ...[more]