GJB2 gene mutations in Slovak hearing-impaired patients of Caucasian origin: Spectrum, frequencies and SNP analysis [3]

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 554-557

  Minarik, Gabriel ^a   Ferakova, E ^b   Ficek, A ^b   Polakova, H ^b   Kadasi, L ^b  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; DNA; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GLYCINE; PROTEIN GJB2; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLOVAKIA;

CONNEXINS; DNA PRIMERS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HAPLOTYPES; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 28644448163     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2005.00529.x     Document Type: Letter

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