Initial experience with the identification of families with hereditary hearing loss in Turkey;Hereditare schwerhorigkeit in der Turkei erste ergebnisse

HNO

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 809-814

  Apaydin, F ^a   Pfister, M ^c,d   Iber, M ^a   Kandogan, T ^a   Leal, S M ^b   Brandle U ^c   Cura, O ^a   Zenner, H P ^c  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consanguinity; Deafness in Turkey; Hereditary hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONSANGUINITY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNDROME; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME DISORDER; DOMINANT GENE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; MALE; PEDIGREE; RECESSIVE GENE; RISK FACTOR; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; X CHROMOSOME;

CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; CONSANGUINITY; DEAFNESS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; SYNDROME; TURKEY; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031712525     PISSN: 00176192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001060050317     Document Type: Article

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