Mutations of LRTOMT, a fusion gene with alternative reading frames, cause nonsyndromic deafness in humans

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1335-1340

  Ahmed, Zubair M ^a,c   Masmoudi, Saber ^b,c   Kalay, Ersan ^c,e   Belyantseva, Inna A ^a   Mosrati, Mohamed Ali ^b   Collin, Rob W J ^c,d   Riazuddin, Saima ^a   Hmani Aifa, Mounira ^b   Venselaar, Hanka ^f   Kawar, Mayya N ^a   Tlili, Abdelaziz ^b   van der Zwaag, Bert ^g   Khan, Shahid Y ^h   Ayadi, Leila ^b   Riazuddin, S Amer ^h   Morell, Robert J ^a   Griffith, Andrew J ^a   Charfedine, Ilhem ⁱ   Ҫaylan, Refik ^e   Oostrik, Jaap ^d   Karaguzel, Ahmet ^e   Ghorbel, Abdelmonem ⁱ   Riazuddin, Sheikh ^h   Friedman, Thomas B ^a   Ayadi, Hammadi ^b   Kremer, Hannie ^d,j   more..

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c Department of Human Genetics ^*

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

ⁱ HABIB BOURGUIBA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^j RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84984930451     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.245     Document Type: Article

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