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An overview of hereditary hearing loss.
ORL; journal for oto-rhino-laryngology and its related specialties - 1 Jan 2006
Bayazit Yildirim A, Yilmaz Metin
Abstract excerpt
Understanding the genetic basis of hearing loss is important because almost 50% of profound hearing loss are caused by genetic factors and more than 120 independent genes have been identified. In this review, after a brief explanation of some genetic terms (allele, heterozygosis, homozygosis, polymorphism, genotype and phenotype), classification of genetic hearing loss (syndromic versus nonsyndromic, and...
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