Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Beheshtian M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5541368 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beheshtian Maryam M Babanejad Mojgan M Azaiez Hela H Bazazzadegan Niloofar N Kolbe Diana D Sloan-Heggen Christina C Arzhangi Sanaz S Booth Kevin K Mohseni Marzieh M Frees Kathy K Azizi Mohammad Hossein MH Daneshi Ahmad A Farhadi Mohammad M Kahrizi Kimia K Smith Richard Jh RJ Najmabadi Hossein H
Archives of Iranian medicine 20161001 10
A significant contribution to the causes of hereditary hearing impairment comes from genetic factors. More than 120 genes and 160 loci have been identified to be involved in hearing impairment. Given that consanguine populations are more vulnerable to most inherited diseases, such as hereditary hearing loss (HHL), the genetic picture of HHL among the Iranian population, which consists of at least eight ethnic subgroups with a high rate of intermarriage, is expected to be highly heterogeneous. Us ...[more]