Mitochondrial deafness mutations reviewe
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Nathan Fischel-Ghodsian
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The first molecular defect for nonsyndromic hearing loss was identified in 1993, and was a mitochondrial mutation. Since then a number of inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations have been implicated in hearing loss, and acquired mtDNA mutations have been proposed as one of the causes of the he