Sequencing of GJB2 in Cameroonians and Black South Africans and comparison to 1000 Genomes Project Data Support Need to Revise Strategy for Discovery of Nonsyndromic Deafness Genes in Africans

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Omics

• Publication date

  2014-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1089/omi.2014.0063PMID 25162826PMCID PMC5206689
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