Novel missense mutations in MYO7A underlying postlingual high- or low-frequency non-syndromic hearing impairment in two large families from China

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-70

  Sun, Yi ^a,b   Chen, Jing ^a,c   Sun, Hanjun ^a,d   Cheng, Jing ^a   Li, Jianzhong ^a   Lu, Yu ^a   Lu, Yanping ^a   Jin, Zhanguo ^a   Zhu, Yuhua ^a   Ouyang, Xiaomei ^e   Yan, Denise ^a   Dai, Pu ^a   Han, Dongyi ^a   Yang, Weiyan ^a   Wang, Rongguang ^a   Liu, Xuezhong ^a,e   Yuan, Huijun ^a  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU GENERAL HOSPITAL OF GUANGZHOU MILITARY COMMAND   (China)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d GENERAL HOSPITAL OF CHINESE PEOPLE'S ARMED POLICE FORCES   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

deafness; DFNA11; linkage analysis; mutation; MYO7A

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN VIIA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROCOCHLEOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; LOW FREQUENCY HEARING LOSS; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHINA; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYOSINS; PEDIGREE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79251626613     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2010.147     Document Type: Article

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