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[Non-syndromic hereditary hearing impairment].
Laryngo- rhino- otologie - 1 Apr 2007
Birkenhäger R, Aschendorff A, Schipper J, Laszig R
Abstract excerpt
Hearing impairment is the most common sensorineural disorder in humans. Approximately one of thousand new-borns is affected by severe to profound deafness at birth or during early childhood. Genetic causes account for around half of these cases of prelingual hearing impairment and the remainder are attributed to environmental factors. Genetic causes of hearing impairment in combination with a syndrome as Usher,...
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