HOMER2, a stereociliary scaffolding protein, is essential for normal hearing in humans and mice.

Hereditary hearing loss is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous disorder. More than 80 genes have been implicated to date, and with the advent of targeted genomic enrichment and massively parallel sequencing (TGE+MPS) the rate of novel deafness-gene identification has accelerated. Here we repo...

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Main Authors: Hela Azaiez, Amanda R Decker, Kevin T Booth, Allen C Simpson, A Eliot Shearer, Patrick L M Huygen, Fengxiao Bu, Michael S Hildebrand, Paul T Ranum, Seiji B Shibata, Ann Turner, Yuzhou Zhang, William J Kimberling, Robert A Cornell, Richard J H Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-03-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4376867?pdf=render