Diagnostic yield in the workup of congenital sensorineural hearing loss is dependent on patient ethnicity

Otology and Neurotology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-87

  Chan, Dylan K ^a   Schrijver, Iris ^b   Chang, Kay W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital hearing loss; Connexin 26; Genetic testing

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 26; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ALLELES; AUDIOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONNEXINS; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 78650730758     PISSN: 15317129     EISSN: 15374505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAO.0b013e3181fc786f     Document Type: Article

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