During the webinar on June 17th, many parents who already have children with CIs, were concerned about the following: is it possible to predict the likelihood of having a deaf child in the future? There were other questions as well! They have been answered by Konstantin Nikiforov himself, in the posting below.
Tatyana Markova answers the questions of experts and parents in the webinar on Genetics, 31.03.2013
[Elena Zueva] If parents are carriers of mutations in different genes, will a child who has a genotype with two faulty genes (for example, connexin and another) be hearing-impaired? We must be aware that every gene has a duplicate – one variant from the mother, and one from the father. So if we talk about …