Dips on Bekesy or audioscan fail to identify carriers of autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 521-527

  Cohen, M ^a,d   Francis, M ^b   Luxon, L M ^a   Bellman, S ^c   Coffey, R ^e   Pembrey, M ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

ARNSHL; Genetic hearing impairment; Notches; Sweep audiometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ADOLESCENT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEARING DISORDER; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PREVALENCE; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RECESSIVE GENE;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE TESTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDIOMETRY; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HEARING DISORDERS; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0029662333     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016489609137883     Document Type: Article

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