Correspondence regarding Ballana et al., "Mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene mutations affect RNA secondary structure and lead to variable penetrance in hearing impairment"

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 343, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 675-676

  Abreu Silva, R S ^a   Batissoco, A C ^a   Lezirovitz, K ^a   Romanos, J ^a   Rincon, D ^a   Auricchio, M T B M ^a   Otto, P A ^a   Mingroni Netto, R C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

12S rRNA gene; A1555G; Mitochondrial DNA; Nonsyndromic hearing loss; Sensorineural hearing impairment; T1291C

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SCREENING; SHORT SURVEY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAZIL; DEAFNESS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, RRNA; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PENETRANCE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BALLANA;

EID: 33645950764     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.03.049     Document Type: Short Survey

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