Mutations in the gene encoding gap junction protein associated with autosomal dominant hearing impairment

Nature Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 370-373

  Xia, Jia Hui ^a   Liu, Chun Yu ^a   Tang, Bei Sha ^b   Pan, Qian ^a   Huang, Lei ^a   Dai, He Ping ^a   Zhang, Bao Rong ^c   Xie, Wei ^a   Hu, Dong Xu ^a   Zheng, Duo ^a   Shi, Xiao Liu ^a   Wang, De An ^a   Xia, Kun ^a   Yu, Kuan Ping ^a   Liao, Xiao Dong ^a   Feng, Yong ^b   Yang, Yi Feng ^a   Xiao, Jian Yun ^b   Xie, Ding Hua ^a   Huang, Jian Zheng ^c  

^a CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 1P; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA LIBRARY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MISSENSE MUTATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CONNEXINS; DEAFNESS; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 17344373747     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/3845     Document Type: Article

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