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SUBMITTER: Niu Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7810922 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Niu Yuguang Y Xie Chengyong C Du Zhenhua Z Zeng Jifeng J Chen Hongxia H Jin Liang L Zhang Qing Q Yu Huiying H Wang Yahui Y Ping Jie J Yang Chenning C Liu Xinyi X Li Yuanfeng Y Zhou Gangqiao G
Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 20201126 1
Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) seriously affects the life quality of humans and causes huge economic losses to society. To identify novel genetic loci involved in NIHL, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for this symptom in Chinese populations. GWAS scan was performed in 89 NIHL subjects (cases) and 209 subjects with normal hearing who have been exposed to a similar noise environment (controls), followed by a replication study consisting of 53 cases and 360 controls. We ident ...[more]