Deaf intermarriage does not increase the prevalence of deafness alleles
Derek C. Braun, Samir Jain, Eric Epstein, Brian H. Greenwald, Brienna Herold, Margaret Gray
This study uses simulations to show that assortative mating among the deaf does not significantly increase the prevalence of deafness alleles or phenotypes, contradicting recent hypotheses.
PLoS ONE · Nov 4, 2020Peer-reviewedGenetics