Carriers of the Usher syndrome type IB: Is audiometric identification possible?

American Journal of Otology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 853-858

  Wagenaar, M ^a   Snik, A F M ^a   Kimberling, W J ^b   Cremers, C W R J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Audiometric identification; Usher syndrome type IB

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; USHER SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; COCHLEA; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME;

EID: 0029957466     PISSN: 01929763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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