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Hearing impairment susceptibility in elderly men and the DFNA18 locus.
Archives of otolaryngology--head & neck surgery - 1 May 2006
Garringer Holly J, Pankratz Nathan D, Nichols William C, Reed Terry
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OBJECTIVE: To identify any chromosomal region that shows evidence for linkage to age-related hearing loss in humans. DESIGN: Evaluation of genetic linkage using sibling-pair methods for hearing loss collected via self-report questionnaire and markers from a genome screening collected from a population-based representative sample of male fraternal twins born from 1917 to 1927. SUBJECTS: Members of a group of 6108...
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