High incidence of deafness from three frequent connexin 26 mutations in an isolated community

Genetic Testing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-43

  Zlotogora, Joël ^a,d   Carasquillo, Minerva ^b   Barges, Saleh ^c   Shalev, Stavit A ^c   Hujerat, Yasir ^c   Chakravarti, Aravinda ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GJB2 GENE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONNEXINS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 33645366737     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gte.2006.10.40     Document Type: Article

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