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Clinical application of genetic testing for deafness
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Clinical application of genetic testing for deafness

Richard J H Smith
American journal of medical genetics. Part A, Vol.130A(1), pp.8-12
09/15/2004
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.30053
PMID: 15368487

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Abstract

Advances in the molecular biology of hearing and deafness have identified many genes essential for normal auditory function. Allele variants of these genes cause nonsyndromic deafness, making mutation screening a valuable test to unequivocally diagnose many different forms of inherited deafness. In this study, genetic testing of GJB2, SLC26A4 and WFS1 is reviewed.
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