MARVELD2 (DFNB49) mutations in the hearing impaired Central European Roma population--prevalence, clinical impact and the common origin.

In the present study we aimed: 1) To establish the prevalence and clinical impact of DFNB49 mutations in deaf Roma from 2 Central European countries (Slovakia and Hungary), and 2) to analyze a possible common origin of the c.1331+2T>C mutation among Roma and Pakistani mutation carriers identified...

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Main Authors: Ivica Mašindová, Andrea Šoltýsová, Lukáš Varga, Petra Mátyás, Andrej Ficek, Miloslava Hučková, Martina Sůrová, Dana Šafka-Brožková, Saima Anwar, Judit Bene, Slavomír Straka, Ingrid Janicsek, Zubair M Ahmed, Pavel Seeman, Béla Melegh, Milan Profant, Iwar Klimeš, Saima Riazuddin, Ľudevít Kádasi, Daniela Gašperíková
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4401708?pdf=render