A cornucopia of candidates for deafness.

Lewis, Morag A; Steel, Karen P · Cell · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Many genes involved in deafness are yet to be discovered. Here, Senthilan et al. focus on the Drosophila Johnston's organ to uncover a wide variety of genes, including several unexpected candidates as well as those already known to underlie deafness in mice and humans.