... study and per-formed the statistical analysis. PD, DH, XL and BW con-ceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript. L-JWreviewed and ... c.35delG was mainly detected in the minorities of Xinjiang, and accounted for almost half of the GJB2 mutant alleles in minorities of Xinjiang (9c.35delG/19 total mutant alleles). The finding of the c.35delG ... located in extracelluar domain 1, 2, and transmem-brane span 4, respectively, of connexin 26 protein. Allthese changes have not been reported in the Connexins and Deafness mutations database at...