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Genetic causes of nonsyndromic hearing loss.
Current opinion in pediatrics - 1 Dec 1999
Skvorak Giersch A B, Morton C C
Abstract excerpt
Explosive progress is being made in genetic studies of hearing and deafness from the clinical and basic research perspectives. Greater than half of hearing loss is estimated to have a genetic basis. Recent studies of hearing and deafness have identified a dozen genes that cause nonsyndromic hearing disorders. Deafness can be inherited in an autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, X-linked, or mitochondrial...
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