Genomic analysis of a heterogeneous Mendelian phenotype: Multiple novel alleles for inherited hearing loss in the Palestinian population

Human Genomics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 203-211

  Walsh, Tom ^a   Rayan, Amal Abu ^b   Sa'ed, Judeh Abu ^b   Shahin, Hashem ^b,c   Shepshelovich, Jeanne ^c   Lee, Ming K ^a   Hirschberg, Koret ^c   Tekin, Mustafa ^d   Salhab, Wa'el ^e   Avraham, Karen B ^c   King, Mary Claire ^a   Kanaan, Moien ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b BETHLEHEM UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e St Joseph's Hospital   (Israel)

Author keywords

Deafness; Genetics; Genomics; Hearing loss; Inherited; Mutation; Otoancorin; Palestinian; Pendrin; TMPRSS3

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CONNEXIN 26; OTOANCORIN; PENDRIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARAB; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS;

EID: 32044470443     PISSN: 14797364     EISSN: 14797364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-7364-2-4-203     Document Type: Article

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