Silence genes: Clinical complexity of genetic deafness

Revista Brasileira de Otorrinolaringologia

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 903-906

  Sartorato, Edi Lúcia ^a   Maciel Guerra, Andréa Trevas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Genetic; Hearing loss

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26;

ALLELE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

EID: 0142229443     PISSN: 00347299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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