Modifiers of hearing impairment in humans and mice

Current Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 269-278

  Yan, Denise ^a   Liu, Xue Zhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allelism; Deafness; Digenic inheritance; Heredity; Heterogeneity; Inbred mouse strain; Modifier genes; Phenotypic variation

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HEARING LOSS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PLEIOTROPY;

MUS;

EID: 77953662922     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920210791233054     Document Type: Article

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