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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Molecular Etiology of Hearing Impairment in Inner Mongolia: mutations in SLC26A4 gene and relevant phenotype analysis | Journal of Translational Medicine BioMed Central Research Molecular Etiology of Hearing Impairment in Inner Mongolia mutations in SLC26A4 gene and relevant phenotype analysis Pu Dai 1 Yongyi Yuan 1 Deliang Huang 1 Xiuhui Zhu2 Fei Yu1 Dongyang Kang1 Huijun Yuan1 Bailin Wu3 Dongyi Han 1 and Lee-Jun C Wong 4 Open Access Address Department of Otolaryngology and Genetic Testing Center for Deafness Chinese PLA General Hospital Beijing 100853 PR China 2Department of Otolaryngology Chifeng Second Hospital Chifeng City Inner Mongolia PR China 3Division of Genetics and Metabolism Children s Hospital Boston Harvard Medical School Boston Massachusetts USA and 4Department of Molecular and Human Genetics Baylor College of Medicine Houston Texas USA Email Pu Dai - daipu301@ YongyiYuan-yyymzh@ Deliang Huang-huangdl301@ Xiuhui Zhu - mzhyyy@ Fei Yu - playufei@ Dongyang Kang - kangdongyang33@ Huijun Yuan - yuanhj@ Bailin Wu - Dongyi Han - hdy301@ Lee-Jun C Wong - ljwong@ Corresponding authors fEqual contributors Published 30 November 2008 Received II August 2008 _ . -mno J .in I IOZÍIz-rn co-r z -TA Accepted 30 November 2008 Journal of Translational Medicine 2008 6 74 doi 1479-5876-6-74 This article is available from http content 6 1 74 2008 Dai et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The molecular etiology of hearing impairment in Chinese has not been thoroughly investigated. Study of GJB2 gene revealed that of the patients with hearing loss in Inner Mongolia carried GJB2 mutations. The SLC26A4 gene mutations and relevant .