Mutations in GJB2 are the most common cause of congenital nonsyndromic hearing loss. The controversial allele variant M34T has been hypothesized to cause autosomal dominant or recessive nonsyndromic hearing impairment and some in vitro data has been consistent with this hypothesis. In this report, we present the clinical and genotypic study of 11 families (seven familial forms of nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss (NSSNHL) and four sporadic cases) in which the M34T GJB2 variant has been identified.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the course of positional cloning of the Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anemia type I (CDAI) [MIM 224120] gene on 15q15.1-15.3, we examined a family of French origin, in which the propositus suffered from asthenoteratozoospermia and nonsyndromic deafness in addition to CDAI.
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