The Usher syndrome, the most frequent cause of deafness and concurrent blindness, occurs with increased frequency in Ashkenazi Jews. The authors of this study demonstrated a founder mutation for the most common form of the type 1 Usher syndrome that probably occurred 350 years ago.
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