Molecular Epidemiology and Functional Assessment of Novel Allelic Variants of SLC26A4 in Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss Patients with Enlarged Vestibular Aqueduct in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Yuan, Yongyi ^a,d   Guo, Weiwei ^a   Tang, Jie ^b   Zhang, Guozheng ^c   Wang, Guojian ^a,d   Han, Mingyu ^a,d   Zhang, Xun ^c   Yang, Shiming ^a   He, David Z Z ^b   Dai, Pu ^a,d  

^a CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Hainan Branch of Chinese PLA General Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PENDRIN; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CHINESE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; EXON; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COUNSELING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MUTANT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SLC26A4 GENE; TEMPORAL BONE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER; VESTIBULE AQUEDUCT;

ADULT; ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHINA; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HEARING LOSS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MUTATION; VESTIBULAR AQUEDUCT;

EID: 84869753444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049984     Document Type: Article

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