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Discovery of a new genetic cause of hearing loss illuminates how inner ear works

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE PHILADELPHIA– A gene called GAS2 plays a key role in normal hearing, and its absence causes severe hearing loss, according to a study led by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The researchers, whose findings are published online today in Developmental Cell, discovered that the protein encoded...