Human Nonsyndromic Sensorineural Deafness

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2003, Pages 341-402

  Friedman, Thomas B ^a   Griffith, Andrew J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cadherin; Channel; Claudin; Connexin; Myosin

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; GENE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MONOGENIC DISORDER; NONSYNDROMIC SENSORINEURAL DEAFNESS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; REVIEW; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECIES; SYNDROME DELINEATION;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS;

EID: 0242609120     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.4.070802.110347     Document Type: Review

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