Mutations in the human α-tectorin gene cause autosomal dominant non- syndromic hearing impairment

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 60-62

  Verhoeven, Kristien ^a   Van Laer, Lut ^a   Kirschhofer, Karin ^b   Legan, P Kevin ^c   Hughes, David C ^d   Schatteman, Isabelle ^e   Verstreken, Margriet ^a   Van Hauwe, Peter ^a   Coucke, Paul ^a   Chen, Achih ^f   Smith, Richard J H ^f   Somers, Thomas ^e   Offeciers, F Erwin ^e   Van De Heyning, Paul ^a   Richardson, Guy P ^c   Wachtler, Franz ^g   Kimberling, William J ^h   Willems, Patrick J ^a   Govaerts, Paul J ^e   Van Camp, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e SINT AUGUSTINUS HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^h BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; COCHLEA DUCT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STEREOCILIUM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COSMIDS; DEAFNESS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; INTRONS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 17344364928     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0598-60     Document Type: Article

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