Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8806297 | International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology | 2018 | 37 Pages |
Abstract
This research demonstrates that hearing loss in a proband who presented in infancy and that of his mother resulted from a high level of heteroplasmy for the m.7445Aâ¯>â¯G mitochondrial DNA mutation, indicating that this alteration can cause hearing loss in infancy.
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Authors
Kana Matsushima, Atsuko Nakano, Yukiko Arimoto, Hideki Mutai, Kazuki Yamazawa, Kei Murayama, Tatsuo Matsunaga,