Mutations in connexin31 underlie recessive as well as dominant non-syndromic hearing loss

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-67

  Liu, Xue Zhong ^a   Xia, Xia Juan ^a   Xu, Li Rong ^b   Pandya, Arti ^a   Liang, Chuan Yu ^b   Blanton, Susan H ^a,c   Brown, Steve D M ^d   Steel, Karen P ^e   Nance, Walter E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^e MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; ISOLEUCINE; VALINE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; ONSET AGE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE GENE;

EID: 0034018259     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.1.63     Document Type: Article

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