Genes involved in deafness

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 309-314

  Holme, Ralph H ^a   Steel, Karen P ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL MATURATION; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOLYMPH; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING LOSS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INNER EAR; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

EID: 0033151905     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(99)80046-X     Document Type: Article

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