Protocadherin-15

Ahmed ZM et al. (2003) PCDH15 is expressed in the neurosensory epithelium of the eye and ear and mutant alleles are responsible for both USH1F and DFNB23.

Sotomayor M et al. (2012) Structure of a force-conveying cadherin bond essential for inner-ear mechanotransduction.

Kazmierczak P et al. (2007) Cadherin 23 and protocadherin 15 interact to form tip-link filaments in sensory hair cells.

Alagramam KN et al. (2007) Promoter, alternative splice forms, and genomic structure of protocadherin 15.

Ouyang XM et al. (2005) Characterization of Usher syndrome type I gene mutations in an Usher syndrome patient population.

Ben-Yosef T et al. (2003) A mutation of PCDH15 among Ashkenazi Jews with the type 1 Usher syndrome.

Alagramam KN et al. (2001) Mutations in the novel protocadherin PCDH15 cause Usher syndrome type 1F.

Alagramam KN et al. (2001) The mouse Ames waltzer hearing-loss mutant is caused by mutation of Pcdh15, a novel protocadherin gene.

Ahmed ZM et al. (2008) Gene structure and mutant alleles of PCDH15: nonsyndromic deafness DFNB23 and type 1 Usher syndrome.

Rebibo-Sabbah A et al. (2007) In vitro and ex vivo suppression by aminoglycosides of PCDH15 nonsense mutations underlying type 1 Usher syndrome.

Ahmed ZM et al. (2001) Mutations of the protocadherin gene PCDH15 cause Usher syndrome type 1F.

Zheng QY et al. (2005) Digenic inheritance of deafness caused by mutations in genes encoding cadherin 23 and protocadherin 15 in mice and humans.

Doucette L et al. (2009) Profound, prelingual nonsyndromic deafness maps to chromosome 10q21 and is caused by a novel missense mutation in the Usher syndrome type IF gene PCDH15.

Chong JX et al. (2012) A population-based study of autosomal-recessive disease-causing mutations in a founder population.

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