A New Mutation of the Atoh1 Gene in Mice with Normal Life Span Allows Analysis of Inner Ear and Cerebellar Phenotype in Aging

• Kianoush Sheykholeslami ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kianoush Sheykholeslami, Vikrum Thimmappa, Casey Nava, Xiaohui Bai

  Current address: OSF Saint Anthony Hospital, University of Illinois, Rockford, Illinois, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Vikrum Thimmappa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kianoush Sheykholeslami, Vikrum Thimmappa, Casey Nava, Xiaohui Bai

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Casey Nava ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kianoush Sheykholeslami, Vikrum Thimmappa, Casey Nava, Xiaohui Bai

  Current address: Internal Medicine, Dartmouth- Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Xiaohui Bai ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kianoush Sheykholeslami, Vikrum Thimmappa, Casey Nava, Xiaohui Bai

  Current address: Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Provincial Hospital affiliated to Shandong University, Jinan, People's Republic China.

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Heping Yu,

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

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• Tihua Zheng,

  Affiliations The Transformative Otology and Neuroscience Center, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, People's Republic of China, Department of Biochemistry, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, People's Republic of China

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• Zhaoqiang Zhang,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Sheng Li Li,

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

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• Shuqing Liu,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Dalian Medical University, Dalian, People's Republic of China

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• Qing Yin Zheng

  * E-mail: qing.zheng@case.edu

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology-HNS, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, The Transformative Otology and Neuroscience Center, Binzhou Medical University, Yantai, Shandong, People's Republic of China, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

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