Prevalence of the 35delG mutation in the GJB2 gene of patients with nonsyndromic hearing loss from Croatia

Genetic Testing

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 297-300

  Sansović, Ivona ^a   Knežević, Jelena ^b   Matijević, Tanja ^b   Balen, Sanja ^c   Barišić, Ingeborg ^a   Pavelić, Jasminka ^b  

^a Croatia   (Croatia)

^b RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; NONSYNDROMIC HEARING LOSS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

CONNEXINS; CROATIA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; POINT MUTATION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 30744465317     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gte.2005.9.297     Document Type: Article

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