Cellular and deafness mechanisms underlying connexin mutation induced hearing loss – A common hereditary deafness
Hearing loss due to mutations in the connexin gene family which encodes gap junctional proteins is a common form of hereditary deafness. In particular, connexin 26 (Cx26, GJB2) mutations are responsible for ~50% of nonsyndromic hearing loss, which is the highest incidence of genetic disease. In the...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncel.2015.00202/full |