Molecular epidemiology of Usher syndrome in Italy

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 1662-1668

  Vozzi, Diego ^a   Aaspõllu, Anu ^b   Athanasakis, Emmanouil ^a   Berto, Anna ^c   Fabretto, Antonella ^a   Licastro, Danilo ^d   Külm, Maigi ^b   Testa, Francesco ^e   Trevisi, Patrizia ^c   Vahter, Marju ^b   Ziviello, Carmela ^e   Martini, Alessandro ^f   Simonelli, Francesca ^e   Banfi, Sandro ^e   Gasparini, Paolo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^b Asper Biotech   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d CBM scrl Genomics   (Italy)

^e SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; USHER SYNDROME;

AGE OF ONSET; ALLELES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; ITALY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; USHER SYNDROMES;

EID: 79960011547     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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