Genetics of congenital deafness in the Palestinian population: Multiple connexin 26 alleles with shared origins in the Middle East

Human Genetics

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 284-289

  Shahin, Hashem ^a,b   Walsh, Tom ^c   Sobe, Tama ^a   Lynch, Eric ^c   King, Mary Claire ^c   Avraham, Karen B ^a   Kanaan, Moien ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; ISRAEL; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MIDDLE EAST; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALESTINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; WILD TYPE;

ALLELES; ARABS; BASE SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 13; CONNEXINS; CONSANGUINITY; DEAFNESS; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE;

EID: 0036524027     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-001-0674-2     Document Type: Article

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