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SUBMITTER: Smits JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6514080 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Smits Jeroen J JJ Oostrik Jaap J Beynon Andy J AJ Kant Sarina G SG de Koning Gans Pia A M PAM Rotteveel Liselotte J C LJC Klein Wassink-Ruiter Jolien S JS Free Rolien H RH Maas Saskia M SM van de Kamp Jiddeke J Merkus Paul P Koole Wouter W Feenstra Ilse I Admiraal Ronald J C RJC Lanting Cornelis P CP Schraders Margit M Yntema Helger G HG Pennings Ronald J E RJE Kremer Hannie H
Human genetics 20181208 1
ATP2B2 encodes the PMCA2 Ca<sup>2+</sup> pump that plays an important role in maintaining ion homeostasis in hair cells among others by extrusion of Ca<sup>2+</sup> from the stereocilia to the endolymph. Several mouse models have been described for this gene; mice heterozygous for loss-of-function defects display a rapidly progressive high-frequency hearing impairment. Up to now ATP2B2 has only been reported as a modifier, or in a digenic mechanism with CDH23 for hearing impairment in humans. Wh ...[more]