Profound, prelingual nonsyndromic deafness maps to chromosome 10q21 and is caused by a novel missense mutation in the Usher syndrome type IF gene PCDH15.
Doucette L, Merner ND, Cooke S, Ives E, Galutira D, Walsh V, Walsh T, MacLaren L, Cater T, Fernandez B, Green JS, Wilcox ER, Shotland LI, Li XC, Lee M, King MC, Young TL.
Doucette L, et al.
Eur J Hum Genet. 2009 May;17(5):554-64. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2008.231. Epub 2008 Dec 24.
Eur J Hum Genet. 2009.
PMID: 19107147
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We studied a consanguineous family (Family A) from the island of Newfoundland with an autosomal recessive form of prelingual, profound, nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss. ...This study validates the DFNB23 designation and supports the hypothesis that missense …
We studied a consanguineous family (Family A) from the island of Newfoundland with an autosomal recessive form of prelingual, …