[Mutations of the GJB2 gene, encoding connexin 26, are the most common cause of hereditary congenital hearing loss in many countries and account for up to 50% of cases of autosomal-recessive non-syndromic deafness.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE