cause deafness

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With more than 100 genes that can cause deafness when mutated, there are other potential targets for gene therapies.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 26, 2024

With many of the other mutations that cause deafness, hair cells die during infancy or even at the fetal stage.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024

He knows that villagers, especially children, catch rodents in the forest to fill their bellies, despite the fact that rats in Guinea can carry Lassa fever, which can cause deafness and death.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2023

But the real marvel of McKenna’s story is how she slowly moves through the consequences of antibiotic resistance: death from childbirth, ear infections that cause deafness, sore throats that cause heart failure.

From The Verge • Oct. 31, 2018

In attacking the problem, the most immediate practical program lies in the arrest of those diseases, especially infantile and infectious diseases, that cause deafness.

From The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States by Best, Harry