Review paper: Recent developments in genetic hearing impairment

Journal of Audiological Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 120-133

  Van Camp, Guy ^a   Willems, Patrick J ^a   Kunst, Henricus ^b   Marres, Henri ^b   Smith, Richard J H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic hearing impairment; Hereditary deafness

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 4;

ALPORT SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BRANCHIOOTORENAL SYNDROME; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; MANDIBULOFACIAL DYSOSTOSIS; USHER SYNDROME; WAARDENBURG SYNDROME; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 0031948976     PISSN: 09637133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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