The prevalence of connexin 26 (GJB2) mutations in the Chinese population

Human Genetics

Volumn 111, Issue 4-5, 2002, Pages 394-397

  Liu, Xue Zhong ^a   Xia, Xia Juan ^c   Ke, Xiao Mei ^b   Ouyang, Xiao Mei ^a   Du, Li Lin ^a   Liu, Yu He ^b   Angeli, Simon ^a   Telischi, Fred F ^a   Nance, Walter E ^c   Balkany, Thomas ^a   Xu, Li Rong ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHINESE; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; HAPLOTYPE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ALLELES; CHINA; CONNEXINS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION;

EID: 0036821083     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-002-0811-6     Document Type: Article

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