Hearing loss: A common disorder caused by many rare alleles

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1214, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 168-179

  Raviv, Dorith ^a   Dror, Amiel A ^a   Avraham, Karen B ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cadherin 23; Deafness; MicroRNA 96; Myosin VIIA; Stereocilin; Usher syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; ENERGY TRANSFER; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; HAIR CELL; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MYO7A GENE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; USH1 GENE; USH1B GENE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650317801     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05868.x     Document Type: Article

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