Gjb3 Gene Mutations in Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss of Bloch, Kurd, and Turkmen Ethnicities in Iran

• Main Authors: Farnoush ALIAZAMI (Author), Dariush D. FARHUD (Author), Marjan ZARIF-YEGANEH (Author), Siamak SALEHI (Author), Azam HOSSEINIPOUR (Author), Roxana SASANFAR (Author), Maryam Eslami (Author)
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• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Hearing loss (HL) is one of the most common heterogeneous congenital disabilities worldwide. Gap junction protein β-3 (GJB3) gene encodes Connexin31 protein (Cx31). The hereditary type of hearing impairment in this gene are known to cause both autosomal recessive and autosomal dominant f...