MPZL2-a common autosomal recessive deafness gene related to moderate sensorineural hearing loss in the Chinese population.

Background: Mutations in MPZL2, the characteristic genetic etiology of autosomal recessive deafness loci 111 (DFNB111), cause non-syndromic and moderate sensorineural hearing loss.

Methods: In this study, we analyzed the phenotype and genotype of eight pedigrees consisting of 10 hearing loss patients with bi-allelic pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants in MPZL2. These patients were identified from a 3272 Chinese patient cohort who underwent genetic testing.

[Speciation analysis of cadmium in cadmium-enriched plants with SE-HPLC combined with ICP-MS and ESI-MS].

Different species of ferns (pyrrosia lingua, Lepisorus thunbergianus, Lycopodium japonicum, Elaphoglossum yoshinagae and Woodwardia japonica) were cultivated using different species of cadmium as cultivation solution. The results showed that there were differences in enrichment amounts of cadmium in different parts of plants (amounts in root > in stem > in leaves). And it was found that different species of cadmium could induce synthesization of plant--chelated peptides (PCs) with different extents.

[New approaches to selenium speciation].

A review of the recent developments in selenium speciation analysis was presented, focusing on the techniques of separation, interface, elemental specific detection and identification of selenium species; the methods of sample storage and pretreatment storage for selenium speciation were also introduced.

[Digital signal acquisition and processing software for atomic fluorescence spectrometry and its application to elemental speciation].

A program was developed to collect and process digital signal by using Visual C++ for atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS). The software solves the data acquisition problem of coupling AFS with HPLC and other successive separation techniques. This program employs three signal processing techniques, i.