Investigating Seven Recently Identified Genes in 100 Iranian Families with Autosomal Recessive Non-syndromic Hearing Loss

Objectives: Hearing loss (HL) is the most common sensory disorder, and affects 1 in 1000 newborns. About 50% of HL is due to genetics and 70% of them are non-syndromic with a recessive pattern of inheritance. Up to now, more than 50 genes have been detected which are responsible for autosomal recess...

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Main Authors: Reihaneh Alikhani, Fatemeh Ostaresh, Mojgan Babanejad, Nilofar Bazazzadegan, Hossein Najmabadi, Kimia Kahrizi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Negah Institute for Scientific Communication 2015-09-01
Series:Iranian Rehabilitation Journal
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Online Access:http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-382-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1