Branchio-oto-renal syndrome (BOR),
The branchio‐oto‐renal (BOR) syndrome is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by hearing loss of early onset, preauricular pits, branchial clefts (abnormal passages from the throat to the outside surface of the neck) , and early progressive chronic renal failure in up to 40% of family affected members. So far, it has not received due attention in the adult European nephrology literature and because of the combination of deafness with chronic renal failure it may be confused with the Alport syndrome. The BOR syndrome is caused by mutations in the EYA1 gene that maps on chromosome 8q13.3.
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