Linkage Analysis for 50 Iranian Families with Autosomal Recessive Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss for DFNB21 Locus

• Main Authors: Parisa Imani-Raad (Author), Kimia Kahrizi (Author), Niloufar Bazzaz-Zadegan (Author), Marzieh Mohseni (Author), Golnaz As'adi (Author), Noushin Nik-Zaat (Author), Fatemeh Sadat Esteghamat (Author), Hossein Najm-Abadi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Congenital hearing loss occurs in 1 out of 1000 births and about 50% of all cases are estimated to be of genetic origin. About 70% of hereditary hearing loss is non-syndromic with autosomal recessive inheritance accounting for 80% of the genetic load. To assess the importance of other loc...