Exome Sequencing Identifies a Founder Frameshift Mutation in an Alternative Exon of USH1C as the Cause of Autosomal Recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa with Late-Onset Hearing Loss

• Samer Khateb,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Lina Zelinger,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Tamar Ben-Yosef,

  Affiliation Genetics Department, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

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• Saul Merin †,

  † Deceased.

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Ornit Crystal-Shalit,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Meir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Israel

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• Menachem Gross,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Eyal Banin ,

  * E-mail: banine@cc.huji.ac.il (EB); dror.sharon1@gmail.com (DS)

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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• Dror Sharon

  * E-mail: banine@cc.huji.ac.il (EB); dror.sharon1@gmail.com (DS)

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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