genetics
One missing gene cost female mice their hearing early, not males
Without the energy-transport gene Slc16a5, female mice lost high-frequency hearing by 6 weeks while males kept theirs at 12, a UT Dallas team reports.
Hearing tests found four hearing-loss genes that diagnosis codes missed
A Vanderbilt team ran the same genetic search twice, once on billing codes for 61,469 people and once on audiograms from 16,057, and only…