Autosomal recessive non-syndromic deafness locus (DFNB8) maps on chromosome 21q22 in a large consanguineous kindred from Pakistan

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 165-168

  Veske, Andres ^a,d   Oehlmann, Ralph ^b   Younus, Farah ^c   Mohyuddin, Aisha ^c   Müller Myhsok, Bertram ^b   Mehdi, S Qasim ^c   Gal, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c Biomed and Genetic Eng Division   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 21Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; FEMALE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030070163     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.1.165     Document Type: Article

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