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. 2008 Aug 1;83(2):200–207. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.07.001

Table 3.

Secular Trend in the Frequency of Pathologic GJB2 and GJB6 Mutations among the Deaf: Deaf Probands with One or Two Deaf Parents

Birth Cohorts
Statistic 19201940 19411960 19611980 Total
Number of Subjects 31 76 92 199
Number of Genes 62 152 184 398
Number of Mutations 31 80 101 212
Frequency of Mutations (%) 50 53 55 53

Linear-trend analysis: Z score 0.69, not significant.