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      Phenotypic variability of non-syndromic hearing loss in patients heterozygous for both c.35delG of GJB2 and the 342-kb deletion involving GJB6.

      Hearing Research
      Adolescent, Adult, Base Sequence, Child, Child, Preschool, Connexins, genetics, Deafness, Gap Junctions, Heterozygote, Humans, Infant, Middle Aged, Mutation, Pedigree, Phenotype, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sequence Deletion

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          Mutations in GJB2, encoding the gap junction protein connexin 26, are the most common cause of inherited non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL), with a broad spectrum of mutations leading to recessive as well as dominant forms. It has been shown that patients who are compound heterozygous for a 342-kb deletion (Delta(GJB6-D13S1830)) involving a large portion of the 5'-part of GJB6, encoding connexin 30, and a GJB2 mutation develop NSHL due to a trait with a digenic pattern of inheritance. We have used a mutation-specific polymerase chain reaction assay to screen NSHL patients for the presence of Delta(GJB6-D13S1830) and identified two families segregating both c.35delG in GJB2 and Delta(GJB6-D13S1830). Remarkably, the severity of hearing loss due to heterozygosity for c.35delG in GJB2 in conjunction with Delta(GJB6-D13S1830) is considerably different in members of the two families, ranging from congenital deafness in one to moderate/severe hearing loss with congenital onset in the other case.

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