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A study of GJB2 and delGJB6-D13S1830 mutations in Brazilian non-syndromic deaf children from the Amazon region.
Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology - 1 Jan 2000
Castro Luciana Santos Serrão de, Marinho Anderson Nonato do Rosario, Rodrigues Elzemar Martins Ribeiro, Marques Giorgio Christie Tavares, Carvalho Tarcísio André Amorim de, Silva Luiz Carlos Santana da, dos Santos Sidney Emanuel Batista
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Hearing impairment affects about 1 in 1000 newborns. Mutations in the connexin 26 (GJB2) gene rank among the most frequent causes of non-syndromic deafness in different populations, while delGJB6-D13S1830 mutation located in the DFNB30 locus is known to cause sensorineural hearing loss. Despite the many studies on the involvement of GJB2 mutations in hearing impairment in different populations, there...
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