Modifier genes of hereditary hearing loss

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 487-493

  Friedman, Thomas ^a   Battey, James ^a   Kachar, Bechara ^a   Riazuddin, Sheikh ^b   Noben Trauth, Konrad ^a   Griffith, Andrew ^a   Wilcox, Edward ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS   (United States)

^b National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; HAIR CELL; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033863407     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(00)00120-3     Document Type: Review

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