Carrier rates of the ancestral Indian W24X mutation in GJB2 in the general gypsy population and individual subisolates

Genetic Testing

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 455-458

  Bouwer, Sonja ^a   Angelicheva, Dora ^a   Chandler, David ^a   Seeman, Pavel ^b   Tournev, Ivailo ^c   Kalaydjieva, Luba ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^d PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GIPSY; GJB2 GENE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDIA; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CONNEXINS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENES, RECESSIVE; GYPSIES; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MUTATION;

EID: 38149043590     PISSN: 10906576     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gte.2007.0048     Document Type: Article

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