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Consanguineous nuclear families used to identify a new locus for recessive non-syndromic hearing loss on 14q
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Consanguineous nuclear families used to identify a new locus for recessive non-syndromic hearing loss on 14q

Kunihiro Fukushima, Arabandi Ramesh, C.R.Srikumari Srisailapathy, Li Ni, Achih Chen, Marsha O'Neill, Guy Van Camp, Paul Coucke, Shelley D Smith, Judith B Kenyon, …
Human molecular genetics, Vol.4(9), pp.1643-1648
09/1995
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/4.9.1643
PMID: 8541854

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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).

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