Mirna Mustapha
Ahmadu Bello University(NG)Neuroscience Institute(IT)University of Sheffield(GB)
Publications by Year
Research Areas
Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics, Vestibular and auditory disorders, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, Connexins and lens biology, Ear Surgery and Otitis Media
Most-Cited Works
- → Prelingual Deafness: High Prevalence of a 30delG Mutation in the Connexin 26 Gene(1997)636 cited
- → A mutation in OTOF, encoding otoferlin, a FER-1-like protein, causes DFNB9, a nonsyndromic form of deafness(1999)580 cited
- → Defects in whirlin, a PDZ domain molecule involved in stereocilia elongation, cause deafness in the whirler mouse and families with DFNB31(2003)339 cited
- → An alpha-tectorin gene defect causes a newly identified autosomal recessive form of sensorineural pre-lingual non-syndromic deafness, DFNB21(1999)194 cited
- → Otoancorin, an inner ear protein restricted to the interface between the apical surface of sensory epithelia and their overlying acellular gels, is defective in autosomal recessive deafness DFNB22(2002)182 cited
- → The 133-kDa N-terminal domain enables myosin 15 to maintain mechanotransducing stereocilia and is essential for hearing(2015)96 cited