Prelingual nonsyndromic hearing loss in Greece: Molecular and clinical findings

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Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 321-323

  Iliades, Theofilos ^a,f   Eleftheriades, N ^a   Iliadou, V ^a   Pampanos, A ^b   Voyiatzis, N ^a   Economides, J ^c   Leotsakos, P ^c   Neou, P ^d   Tsakanikos, M ^d   Antoniadi, T ^f   Konstantopoulou, I ^e   Yannoukakos, D ^e   Grigoriadou, M ^b   Skevas, A ^f   Petersen, M B ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Institute of Child Health   (Greece)

^c AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^d P AND A KYRIAKOU CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Deafness; Genetics; GJB2 gene; Greece; Population

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GREECE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0036968098     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066088     Document Type: Article

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