Contribution of GJB2 mutations to hearing loss in the Hazara Division of Pakistan

Biochemical Genetics

Volumn 51, Issue 7-8, 2013, Pages 524-529

  Bukhari, Ihtisham ^a,b   Mujtaba, Ghulam ^a   Naz, Sadaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b HAZARA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Connexin 26; Deafness; GJB2; Hazara; Hearing loss; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GJB2 GENE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE;

CONNEXINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PAKISTAN; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84880633196     PISSN: 00062928     EISSN: 15734927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10528-013-9583-z     Document Type: Article

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