Heritability of audiometric shape parameters and familial aggregation of presbycusis in an elderly Flemish population

Hearing Research

Volumn 265, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 1-10

  Demeester, Kelly ^a,b   van Wieringen, Astrid ^b   Hendrickx, Jan jaap ^c   Topsakal, Vedat ^a   Huyghe, Jeroen ^c   Fransen, Erik ^c   Van Laer, Lut ^c   Van Camp, Guy ^c   Van de Heyning, Paul ^a  

^a ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Age related hearing impairment; Audiometric configuration; Epidemiology; Familial aggregation; Heritability; Presbycusis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESBYACUSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BELGIUM; BONE CONDUCTION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEARING; HEREDITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ODDS RATIO; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRESBYCUSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 77953026831     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.03.007     Document Type: Article

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