[Mutations in the gene (MYO7A) encoding myosin-VIIa, a member of the large superfamily of myosin motor proteins that move on cytoplasmic actin filaments, and in the USH2A gene, which encodes a novel protein resembling an extracellular matrix protein or a cell adhesion molecule, both cause Usher syndrome (USH), a clinically heterogeneous autosomal recessive disorder comprising hearing and visual impairment.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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