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Part IV: CASE STUDIES: Using Human Genome Epidemiology Information to Improve Health Chapter 24 Tables

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Table 24-1
The prevalence of GJB2 variants and specific common alleles individuals with nonsyndromic prelingual hearing loss and in general population controls in European, white American, Ashkenazi Jewish, and Korean and Japanese populations.
Population
% cases with 1 or 2 GJB2 variant alleles*
Most common allele in population
% cases with 1 or 2 copies of the most common allele
References for case data
% controls with 1 copy of most common allele
References for control data
Ashkenazi Jews

 
50%
167ΔT
31%
23,70
8%
23,24,69,70
European and North American white
38%
35ΔG
34%
19,26-28,30,31,40,41,
47,55,57
2%
24,27,28,57,
63,64,66-68
Japan
21%
235ΔC
17%
34-36
1%
34-36
Korea
11%
235ΔC
7%
33
1%
33
* excluding the V27I, E114G, I203T polymorphisms

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