Human cochlear expressed sequence tags provide insight into cochlear gene expression and identify candidate genes for deafness

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 439-452

  Skvorak, Anne B ^a,b   Weng, Zhiping ^c   Yee, Andrew J ^b   Robertson, Nahid G ^a   Morton, Cynthia C ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COCHLEA; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; DATA BASE; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033051643     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.3.439     Document Type: Article

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