Dear Editor,Actins are a family of essential cytoskeletal proteins involved in nearly all cellular processes(Lambrechts et al.,2004).Of the six human genes that encode actins,only ACTG1and ACTB are ubiquitously expr...Dear Editor,Actins are a family of essential cytoskeletal proteins involved in nearly all cellular processes(Lambrechts et al.,2004).Of the six human genes that encode actins,only ACTG1and ACTB are ubiquitously expressed.ACTG1(OMIM#604717),which is linked to the DFNA20/26 locus,wasidentified in autosomal dominant, non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL) cases (Baek et al., 2012; Liu et al., 2008; Park et al., 2013; Yuan et al., 2016). In addition, some ACTG1 (OMIM #614583) mutations are associated with Baraitser-Winter syndrome, which is characterized by developmental delay, facial dysmorphologies, brain malformations, colobomas, and variable hearing loss (Riviere et al., 2012).展开更多
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文摘Dear Editor,Actins are a family of essential cytoskeletal proteins involved in nearly all cellular processes(Lambrechts et al.,2004).Of the six human genes that encode actins,only ACTG1and ACTB are ubiquitously expressed.ACTG1(OMIM#604717),which is linked to the DFNA20/26 locus,wasidentified in autosomal dominant, non-syndromic hearing loss (NSHL) cases (Baek et al., 2012; Liu et al., 2008; Park et al., 2013; Yuan et al., 2016). In addition, some ACTG1 (OMIM #614583) mutations are associated with Baraitser-Winter syndrome, which is characterized by developmental delay, facial dysmorphologies, brain malformations, colobomas, and variable hearing loss (Riviere et al., 2012).