Role of DFNB1 mutations in hereditary hearing loss among assortative mating hearing impaired families from South India

• Những tác giả chính: Pavithra Amritkumar (Tác giả), Justin Margret Jeffrey (Tác giả), Jayasankaran Chandru (Tác giả), Paridhy Vanniya S (Tác giả), M. Kalaimathi (Tác giả), Rajagopalan Ramakrishnan (Tác giả), N. P. Karthikeyen (Tác giả), C. R. Srikumari Srisailapathy (Tác giả)
• Định dạng: Sách
• Được phát hành: BMC, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Những chủ đề: article
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Abstract Background DFNB1, the first locus to have been associated with deafness, has two major genes GJB2 & GJB6, whose mutations have played vital role in hearing impairment across many ethnicities in the world. In our present study we have focused on the role of these mutations in assortative...