Mitochondrial haplogroup B increases the risk for hearing loss among the Eastern Asian pedigrees carrying 12S rRNA 1555A>G mutation.

Author: Zhengbiao YING ¹ ; Jing ZHENG ² ; Zhaoyang CAI ¹ ; Li LIU ² ; Yu DAI ³ ; Juan YAO ⁴ ; Hui WANG ⁴ ; Yinglong GAO ⁴ ; Binjiao ZHENG ⁴ ; Xiaowen TANG ⁴ ; Yi ZHU ⁵ ; Min-Xin GUAN ² ; Ye CHEN ⁶
Author Information

1. Department of Otolaryngology, Wenling People's Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenling, 317500, China.
2. Institute of Genetics, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China.
3. Department of Clinical Laboratory, The Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310009, China.
4. Attardi Institute of Mitochondrial Biomedicine, School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325035, China.
5. Department of Otolaryngology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, 325000, China.
6. Institute of Genetics, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, China. yechency@zju.edu.cn.
Publication Type:Letter
MeSH: Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Hearing Loss; genetics; Humans; Mutation; genetics; Pedigree; RNA, Ribosomal; genetics
From: Protein & Cell 2015;6(11):844-848
CountryChina
Language:English