Identification of an ancestral haplotype of the 35delG mutation in the GJB2 (connexin 26) gene responsible for autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss in families from the Easter Black Sea region in Turkey

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-221

  Balci, Burcu ^a   Özbaş Gerçeker, Filiz ^b   Aksoy, Songül ^a   Sennaroǧlu, Gonca ^a   Kalay, Ersan ^c   Sennaroǧlu, Levent ^a   Dinçer, Pervin ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

^c KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

35delG; Ancestral haplotype; GJB2; Non syndromic hearing loss; Prelingual

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; GENE DELETION; HAPLOTYPE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MUTATION RATE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

CONNEXINS; HAPLOTYPES; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MUTATION; TURKEY;

EID: 27544457168     PISSN: 00414301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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