A novel locus (DFNA23) for prelingual autosomal dominant nonsyndromic hearing loss maps to 14q21-q22 in a Swiss German

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1984-1988

  Salam, Ambar A ^a   Häfner, Franziska M ^b   Linder, Thomas E ^b   Spillmann, Thomas ^b   Schinzel, Albert A ^c   Leal, Suzanne M ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 14Q; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DETERMINATION; FAMILY STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033911951     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302931     Document Type: Article

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