Inherited hearing loss: New diagnostic possibilities;Erbliche schwerhorigkeit: Neue moglichkeiten der diagnostik

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 130, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 485-489

  Hergersberg, M ^a   Weigell Weber, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Connexin; Genetic hearing loss; Linkage analysis; Mutation analysis

Indexed keywords

GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DEAFNESS; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENETICS; HEARING DISORDER; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; MUTATION;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEAFNESS; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MUTATION;

EID: 0034169610     PISSN: 00367672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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