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A simple PCR test to detect the common 35delG mutation in the connexin 26 gene.
Molecular diagnosis : a journal devoted to the understanding of human disease through the clinical application of molecular biology - 1 Mar 2000
Wilcox S A, Osborn A H, Dahl H H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The most common form of nonsyndromic neurosensory autosomal recessive deafness, DFNB1, is caused by mutations in the connexin 26 gene (GJB2) on chromosome 13. One mutation, in which one guanosine (G) residue is deleted from a run of 6 Gs (35delG), is found in 40% to 70% of DFNB1 cases and has an expected population frequency of one in 40 to one in 100. METHODS AND RESULTS: Polymerase chain reaction...
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