Prevalence of the c.35delG and p.W24X mutations in the GJB2 gene in patients with nonsyndromic hearing loss from North-West Romania

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 351-355

  Lazar C ^a   Popp, R ^a   Trifa, A ^a   Mocanu, C ^b   Mihut, G ^b   Al Khzouz, C ^a   Tomescu, E ^a   Figan, I ^b   Grigorescu Sido, P ^a  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b ER County Hospital of Cluj Napoca   (Romania)

Author keywords

c.35delG mutation; Connexin 26; Hereditary deafness; p.W24X mutation; Sensorineural hearing loss

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY SCREENING; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CHILD; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY INTERVENTION; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPOACUSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATION RATE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA;

CONNEXINS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; MUTATION; OTOSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; ROMANIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77549085276     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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