pubmed-article:17229560 | pubmed:abstractText | Mutations of the connexin 26 gene, GJB2, are the most common cause of non syndromic autosomal-recessive hearing loss. One of the GJB2 mutations, the 35delG, is recurrent in European and Mediterranean populations with allelic frequency of at least 70% in patients with hearing loss caused by GJB2 impairment. | lld:pubmed |