Genes responsible for human hereditary deafness: Symphony of a thousand

Nature Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 385-391

  Petit, Christine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNDROME DELINEATION; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEAFNESS; EAR; HEARING; HUMANS; SYNDROME;

EID: 0029807805     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1296-385     Document Type: Review

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