Selection for deafness? [1]

Nature Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1332-1333

  Meyer, Christian G ^a   Amedofu, Geoffrey K ^b   Brandner, Johanna M ^c   Pohland, Dieter ^d   Timmann, Christian ^a   Horstmann, Rolf D ^a  

^a BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d Altonaer Kinderkrankenhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE; SODIUM; CONNEXIN 26; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EPIDERMIS; FAMILY STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENODERMATOSIS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATODERMA; LETTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STRATUM CORNEUM; SWEAT GLAND; SWEAT TEST; GENETICS; MUTATION;

CONNEXINS; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; MUTATION;

EID: 0036887084     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1202-1332     Document Type: Letter

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