Waardenburg Syndrome

Audiological Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 77-88

  Newton, Valerie E ^a   Read, Andrew P ^b  

^a Educ of the Deaf and Speech Pathol   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Craniofacial abnormalities; Hearing impairment; Phenotypes; Pigmentation defects

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIOFACIAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROTOPIA; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WAARDENBURG SYNDROME;

EID: 0141802617     PISSN: 1651386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16513860310003076     Document Type: Review

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