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SUBMITTER: Carpinelli MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3691321 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carpinelli Marina R MR Manning Michael G MG Kile Benjamin T BT Burt Rachel A RA
PloS one 20130624 6
Over 120 loci are known to cause inherited hearing loss in humans. The deafness gene has been identified for only half of these loci. With the aim of identifying some of the remaining deafness genes, we performed an ethylnitrosourea mutagenesis screen for deaf mice. We isolated two mutants with semi-dominant hearing loss, Deaf11 and Deaf13. Both contained causative mutations in Atp2b2, which encodes the plasma membrane calcium ATPase 2. The Atp2b2 (Deaf11) mutation leads to a p. I1023S substitut ...[more]