Prevalence of GBJ2 mutations in patients with severe to profound congenital nonsyndromic sensorineural hearing loss in Bulgarian population

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 269, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1589-1592

  Popova, Diana P ^a   Kaneva, Radka ^a   Varbanova, Sonya ^a   Popov, Todor M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

c.35delG; Connexin 26; GJB2; Sensorineural hearing loss

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; GENOMIC DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL NONSYNDROMIC SENSORINEURAL HEARING LOSS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GJB2 GENE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; BULGARIA; CONNEXINS; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 84864956224     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: 14344726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-011-1817-2     Document Type: Article

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