Clinical studies of families with hearing loss attributable to mutations in the connexin 26 gene (GJB2/DFNB1)

Pediatrics

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 546-550

  Cohn, Edward S ^a   Kelley, Philip M ^a   Fowler, Thomas W ^a   Gorga, Michael P ^a   Lefkowitz, David M ^b   Kuehn, Harold J ^a   Schaefer, G Bradley ^c   Gobar, Lisa S ^c   Hahn, Francis J ^c   Harris, Djuana J ^a   Kimberling, William J ^a,d  

^a BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Boy's Town National Research Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin 26; DFNB1; GJB2; Hearing loss; Nonsyndromic recessive hearing loss

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MALE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL BONE; THYROID FUNCTION; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 0033037643     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.103.3.546     Document Type: Article

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