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SUBMITTER: Ren Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6660246 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ren Yin Y Landegger Lukas D LD Stankovic Konstantina M KM
Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 20190716
Hearing loss is the most common sensory impairment in humans and currently disables 466 million people across the world. Congenital deafness affects at least 1 in 500 newborns, and over 50% are hereditary in nature. To date, existing pharmacologic therapies for genetic and acquired etiologies of deafness are severely limited. With the advent of modern sequencing technologies, there is a vast compendium of growing genetic alterations that underlie human hearing loss, which can be targeted by ther ...[more]