Attitudes of deaf people and their families towards issues surrounding genetics

Genes, Hearing, and Deafness: From Molecular Biology to Clinical Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 163-172

  Middleton, Anna ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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