Screening of deafness-causing DNA variants that are common in patients of European ancestry using a microarray-based approach.

The unparalleled heterogeneity in genetic causes of hearing loss along with remarkable differences in prevalence of causative variants among ethnic groups makes single gene tests technically inefficient. Although hundreds of genes have been reported to be associated with nonsyndromic hearing loss (N...

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Main Authors: Denise Yan, Guangxin Xiang, Xingping Chai, Jie Qing, Haiqiong Shang, Bing Zou, Rahul Mittal, Jun Shen, Richard J H Smith, Yao-Shan Fan, Susan H Blanton, Mustafa Tekin, Cynthia Morton, Wanli Xing, Jing Cheng, Xue Zhong Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169219