mortality/aging
• only a small fraction of homozygotes survive into adulthood (18 weeks of age)
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• most homozygotes die in the early postnatal period, prior to the onset of hearing
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hearing/vestibular/ear
• recorded potentials are of lower amplitude and altered in waveform
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• homozygotes display significantly elevated hearing thresholds at 5 weeks and 12 weeks of age
• at 12 weeks of age, average hearing thresholds in females are 15 dB worse than in males
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• at 5 weeks of age, homozygotes exhibit a mild 25-dB hearing loss relative to wild-type or heterozygous controls
• at 12 weeks of age, females exhibit greater hearing loss than age-matched males
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