The prevalence and expression of inherited connexin 26 mutations associated with nonsyndromic hearing loss in the Israeli population

Human Genetics

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 50-57

  Sobe, Tama ^a   Vreugde, Sarah ^a   Shahin, Hashem ^a,b   Berlin, Mira ^c   Davis, Noa ^a   Kanaan, Moien ^b   Yaron, Yuval ^d   Orr Urtreger, Avi ^a,d   Frydman, Moshe ^a,e   Shohat, Mordechai ^a,f   Avraham, Karen B ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MICHA Soc Hear Impaired Children   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEARING LOSS; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JEW; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIBLING; TYMPANOMETRY;

ADULT; ALLELES; AUDIOMETRY; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CONNEXINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0034019466     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390051009     Document Type: Article

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