Two large Spanish pedigrees with nonsyndromic sensorineural deafness and the mtDNA mutation at nt 1555 in the 12s rRNA gene: Evidence of heteroplasmy

Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 453-456

  El Schahawi, M ^a   De Lopez Munain A ^b   Sarrazin, A M ^a   Shanske, A L ^a   Basirico, M ^a   Shanske, S ^c   DiMauro, S ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b Hospital Nuestra Senora de Aranzazu   (Spain)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GUANINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

EID: 0343852695     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.48.2.453     Document Type: Article

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