GJB2 allele variants and the associated audiologic features identified in chinese patients with less severe idiopathic hearing loss

Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 313-318

  Zhang, Jianning ^a   Wang, Zhengmin ^a   Dai, Wenjia ^a   Zeng, Yongmei ^a   Li, Huawei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROMOTER REGION; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CONNEXINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS, BILATERAL; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956149203     PISSN: 19450265     EISSN: 19450257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/gtmb.2010.0182     Document Type: Article

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