| Literature DB >> 8541854 |
K Fukushima1, A Ramesh, C R Srisailapathy, L Ni, A Chen, M O'Neill, G Van Camp, P Coucke, S D Smith, J B Kenyon.
Abstract
Hearing impairment is inherited most frequently as an autosomal recessive isolated clinical finding (non-syndromic hearing loss, NSHL). Extreme heterogeneity and phenotypic variability in the audiometric profile preclude pooling of affected families and severely hamper gene mapping by conventional linkage analysis. However, in instances of consanguinity, homozygosity mapping can be used to identify disease loci in small nuclear families. This report demonstrates the power of this technique by identifying a locus for recessive NSHL on 14q (DFNB4).Entities:
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Year: 1995 PMID: 8541854 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/4.9.1643
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Hum Mol Genet ISSN: 0964-6906 Impact factor: 6.150