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

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 stu...

Source: BMC Medical Genetics - June 19, 2018 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Pavithra Amritkumar, Justin Margret Jeffrey, Jayasankaran Chandru, Paridhy Vanniya S, M. Kalaimathi, Rajagopalan Ramakrishnan, N. P. Karthikeyen and C. R. Srikumari Srisailapathy Tags: Research article Source Type: research