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DFNB8

DFNB8

Abbreviation for:
deafness autosomal recessive type 8
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References in periodicals archive
(1996) to be the underlying cause of postlingual (DFNB8) hearing impairment.
Compound heterozygosity for a mild and severe mutation leads to postlingual hearing loss (DFNB8), whereas the combination of two severe mutations leads to profound hearing impairment with prelingual onset (DFNB10) [4].
Autosomal recessive non-syndromic deafness locus (DFNB8) maps on chromosome 21q22 in a large consanguineous kindred from Pakistan.
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