Ablation of whirlin long isoform disrupts the USH2 protein complex and causes vision and hearing loss.

Mutations in whirlin cause either Usher syndrome type II (USH2), a deafness-blindness disorder, or nonsyndromic deafness. The molecular basis for the variable disease expression is unknown. We show here that only the whirlin long isoform, distinct from a short isoform by virtue of having two N-termi...

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Main Authors: Jun Yang, Xiaoqing Liu, Yun Zhao, Michael Adamian, Basil Pawlyk, Xun Sun, D Randy McMillan, M Charles Liberman, Tiansen Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2873905?pdf=render