Sounds from the cochlea

Karen B. Avraham
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Karen B. Avraham: the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Nature, 1997, vol. 390, issue 6660, 559-560

Abstract: Because nearly half of the world's population may lose some or all ability to hear by the age of 80, finding out why this occurs is a priority. The latest findings are the isolation of two genes which, when mutated, both cause hearing problems. The first encodes a protein called diaphanous, which is involved in functioning of sensory hair cells in the cochlea. The second encodes a putative sulphate transporter protein — pendrin — that is mutated in patients with a hearing disorder called Pendred syndrome. Defects in pendrin affect the growth and development of the cochlea.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/37489

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