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Maria T Bernardi1, Memoona Ramzan2, Laura Calderon3
1Instituto de Química Biológica de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (IQUIBICEN) CONICET Buenos Aires 1428 Argentina.
Abstract:
Hearing loss is the most common sensory defect in humans, affecting normal communication. In most cases, hearing loss is a multifactorial disorder caused by both genetic and environmental factors, but single-gene mutations can lead to syndromic or non-syndromic hearing loss. Monoallelic variants in ACTG1, coding for gamma (γ)-actin, are associated with classical Baraitser-Winter Syndrome type 2 (BRWS2, nonsyndromic deafness, and a variety of clinical presentations not fitting the original BRWS2 description or nonsyndromic deafness. Here two unrelated patients with ACTG1 variants are reported, having severe hearing loss as a common phenotype but with different clinical presentations, supporting the extreme variability of ACTG1-related disorders.
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