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A comparative analysis of the genetic epidemiology of deafness in the United States in two sets of pedigrees collected more than a century apart.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 2008
Arnos Kathleen S, Welch Katherine O, Tekin Mustafa, Norris Virginia W, Blanton Susan H, Pandya Arti, Nance Walter E
Abstract excerpt
In 1898, E.A. Fay published an analysis of nearly 5000 marriages among deaf individuals in America collected during the 19(th) century. Each pedigree included three-generation data on marriage partners that included at least one deaf proband, who were ascertained by complete selection. We recently proposed that the intense phenotypic assortative mating among the deaf might have greatly accelerated the normally...
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