Prevalence of mutations located at the dfnb1 locus in a population of cochlear implanted children in eastern Romania

International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 90-94

  Rǎdulescu, Luminiţa ^a,b   Mârţu, Cristian ^a,b   Birkenhäger, Ralf ^c   Cozma, Sebastian ^a,b   Ungureanu, Loreta ^a,b   Laszig, Roland ^c  

^a GRIGORE T POPA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b Clinical Rehabilitation Hospital   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cochlear implant; Connexin; DFNB1; Genetic hearing loss; GJB2

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 13; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; DFNB1 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GJB2 GENE; GJB6 GENE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROMANIA; SCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COCHLEAR IMPLANTATION; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; COHORT STUDIES; CONNEXINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MUTATION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROMANIA;

EID: 84855545496     PISSN: 01655876     EISSN: 18728464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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