Spectrum of genetic changes in patients with non-syndromic hearing impairment and extremely high carrier frequency of 35delG GJB2 mutation in Belarus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Danilenko, Nina ^a   Merkulava, Elena ^b   Siniauskaya, Marina ^a   Olejnik, Olga ^a   Levaya Smaliak, Anastasia ^b   Kushniarevich, Alena ^c   Shymkevich, Andrey ^a   Davydenko, Oleg ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND CYTOLOGY   (Belarus)

^b BELARUSIAN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Belarus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GJB2 GENE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NON SYNDROMIC HEARING IMPAIRMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; BELARUS; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS; INFANT; MALE; MUTATION; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUTATION; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860475611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036354     Document Type: Article

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