Elevated frequencies of the 35delG allele of the connexin 26 gene in Corsica, France [1]

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 517-518

  Lucotte, Gérard ^a   Pinna, A ^b  

^a Centre de Neurogenetique Moleculaire   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE;

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FRANCE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONNEXINS; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, RECESSIVE; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 0344740650     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1399-0004.2003.00175.x     Document Type: Letter

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