Linkage of congenital, recessive deafness (DFNB4) to chromosome 7q31 and evidence for genetic heterogeneity in the Middle Eastern Druze population
Baldwin C, Weiss S, Farrer L, De Stefano A, Adair R, Franklyn B, Kidd K, Korostishevsky M, Bonné-Tamir B. Linkage of congenital, recessive deafness (DFNB4) to chromosome 7q31 and evidence for genetic heterogeneity in the Middle Eastern Druze population. Human Molecular Genetics 1995, 4: 1637-1642. PMID: 8541853, DOI: 10.1093/hmg/4.9.1637.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman chromosome 7q31Genetic linkage analysisNon-syndromic deafnessChromosomal locationGene locationNon-syndromic formsRecessive non-syndromic deafnessLinkage analysisChromosome 7q31Nonallelic mutationsGenetic isolateLarge familyLOD scoreGenetic heterogeneityGenetic causeRecessive deafnessGenesRecognizable phenotypeFirst evidenceDruze familyFamilyAffected individualsSpecific patternsMutationsPhenotype