Mutations in the connexin 26 gene (GJB2) among Ashkenazi jews with nonsyndromic recessive deafness

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 339, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 1500-1505

  Morell, Robert J ^a,f   Kim, Hung Jeff ^a   Hood, Linda J ^b   Goforth, Leah ^b   Friderici, Karen ^c   Fisher, Rachel ^c   Van Camp, Guy ^d   Berlin, Charles I ^b   Oddoux, Carole ^e   Ostrer, Harry ^e   Keats, Bronya ^b   Friedman, Thomas B ^a   San Agustin, Theresa ^a   Dumon, Jan ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NIDCD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; JEW; MALE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONNEXINS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, RECESSIVE; HEARING TESTS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; JEWS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 3643059295     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199811193392103     Document Type: Article

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