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Disease usher syndrome
Symptom C0011053|deafness
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PubMedID- 22977115 Ush2a and gpr98 have been found to be mutated in usher syndrome, a ciliopathy leading to deafness and blindness, and found to potentially interact in the extracellular gap (maerker et al.
PubMedID- 21738389 Within the mapped region on chromosome 9, 102 genes were sorted using genedistiller, among which dfnb31, encoding whirlin, was the only gene already reported to be involved in rod-cone dystrophy associated with deafness as part of usher syndrome type 2 (ush2d locus) .
PubMedID- 23737954 Three proband patients complained progressive night blindness and mild deafness, indicating a diagnosis of type ii usher syndrome.
PubMedID- 23714135 But we should bear in mind the report of jennifer j lentz (lsu health sciences center, usa) that patients with type 1 usher syndrome, which leads to combined deafness and blindness, would welcome treatment for the blindness, but do not consider that their deafness needs intervention.

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