Claudin 14 knockout mice, a model for autosomal recessive deafness DFNB29, are deaf due to cochlear hair cell degeneration.
Ben-Yosef T, Belyantseva IA, Saunders TL, Hughes ED, Kawamoto K, Van Itallie CM, Beyer LA, Halsey K, Gardner DJ, Wilcox ER, Rasmussen J, Anderson JM, Dolan DF, Forge A, Raphael Y, Camper SA, Friedman TB.
Ben-Yosef T, et al. Among authors: belyantseva ia.
Hum Mol Genet. 2003 Aug 15;12(16):2049-61. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddg210.
Hum Mol Genet. 2003.
PMID: 12913076