Sequencing of GJB2 in Cameroonians and black south Africans and comparison to 1000 genomes project data support need to revise strategy for discovery of nonsyndromic deafness genes in Africans

OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 705-710

  Bosch, Jason ^a   Noubiap, Jean Jacques N ^b   Dandara, Collet ^a   Makubalo, Nomlindo ^a   Wright, Galen ^c   Entfellner, Jean Baka Domelevo ^c   Tiffin, Nicki ^c   Wonkam, Ambroise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BIOINFORMATICS; CAMEROONIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONGENITAL NONSYNDROMIC DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GJB2 GENE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PREVALENCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGY; BLACK PERSON; CAMEROON; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMEROON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONNEXINS; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84910120344     PISSN: 15362310     EISSN: 15578100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/omi.2014.0063     Document Type: Article

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