Hearing loss with a mitochondrial gene mutation is highly prevalent in japan

Laryngoscope

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 334-338

  Oshima, Takeshi ^a   Ueda, Narihisa ^a   Ikeda, Katsuhisa ^a   Abe, Koji ^a   Takasaka, Tomonori ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; DNA FRAGMENT; GUANINE; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHILD; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU;

EID: 0033018278     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199902000-00029     Document Type: Article

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