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Cochleosaccular dysplasia associated with a connexin 26 mutation in keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome.
The Laryngoscope - 1 Aug 2006
Griffith Andrew J, Yang Yandan, Pryor Shannon P, Park Hong-Joon, Jabs Ethylin Wang, Nadol Joseph B, Russell Laura J, Wasserman Daniel I, Richard Gabriele, Adams Joe C, Merchant Saumil N
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to characterize the temporal bone phenotype associated with a mutation of GJB2 (encoding connexin 26). STUDY DESIGN: The authors conducted correlative clinical, molecular genetic, and postmortem histopathologic analysis. METHODS: The study subject was a male infant with keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness (KID) syndrome. We performed a nucleotide sequence analysis of GJB2 and...
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