Allele-Specific impairment of GJB2 expression by GJB6 deletion del(GJB6-d13s1854)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Rodriguez Paris, Juan ^a   Tamayo, Marta L ^b,c   Gelvez, Nancy ^b   Schrijver, Iris ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

^c Fundacion Oftalmologica Nacional   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CONNEXIN 26; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GJB6 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GJB2 GENE; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ALLELE; GENETICS; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; CONNEXINS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 79959678741     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021665     Document Type: Article

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