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Genetic testing for hearing loss in the United States should include deletion/duplication analysis for the deafness/infertility locus at 15q15.3

BACKGROUND: Hearing loss is the most common birth defect and the most prevalent sensorineural disorder in developed countries. More than 50% of prelingual deafness is genetic, most often autosomal recessive and nonsyndromic, of which 50% can be attributed to the disorder DFNB1, caused by mutations i...

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Autores principales: Hoppman, Nicole, Aypar, Umut, Brodersen, Pamela, Brown, Neil, Wilson, Justin, Babovic-Vuksanovic, Dusica
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3671142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23648117
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1755-8166-6-19