Genotypic and phenotypic correlations of DFNB1-related hearing impairment in the Midwestern United States

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 836-840

  Lim, Lynne H Y ^a   Bradshaw, John K ^a,c   Guo, Yingshi ^a   Pilipenko, Valentina ^a   Madden, Colm ^a   Ingala, David ^b   Keddache, Mehdi ^b   Choo, Daniel I ^a,c   Wenstrup, Richard ^b   Greinwald Jr , John H ^a,c,d  

^a Ctr for Hear and Deafness Research   (United States)

^b Department of Human Genetics ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DFNB1 GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GJB2 GENE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECESSIVE GENE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CONNEXINS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0042090621     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.129.8.836     Document Type: Article

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