Research Article

Identification of Pathogenic Genes of Nonsyndromic Hearing Loss in Uyghur Families Using Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing Technique

Table 2

Type of mutations in the families.

TypeFamilyMutation siteAmino acid changesType of mutationNovel mutation

MYO15AJ026892C>Tp.R2298XNonsense mutationNovel
J079514C>T/7894G>Tp.Q3172X/p.V2632LNonsense mutation/missense mutationNovel
J169514C>Tp.Q3172XNonsense mutationNovel

MYO7AJ031258A>Tp.K420XNonsense mutationNovel

TMC1J09773G>Ap.G258DMissense mutationNovel
J111247T>G/1312G>Ap.L416R/p.A438TMissense mutationReported previously

PCDH15J084658delTp.M1553fsFrameshift mutationNovel
J134658delTp.M1553fsFrameshift mutationNovel