mortality/aging
• very few pups produced from heterozygous intercrosses survive to weaning; however, these mice appear to have a normal life span thereafter
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hearing/vestibular/ear
• rare homozygotes exhibit only residual hearing at low frequencies (8 and 16 kHz) at P16, as determined by ABR thresholds
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• mice exhibit absent DPOAEs at all ages tested (P16, P30, P60 and P90), indicating loss of outer hair cell (OHC) function as early as P16
• however, endocochlear potentials remain normal indicating that stria vascularis function is unaffected
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• rare homozygotes show progressive loss of hearing
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