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Non-syndromic dominant sensorineural hearing loss: from a few phenotypes to many genotypes.
International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology - 3 Jan 1997
Stinckens C, Ensink R, Feenstra L, Fryns J P, Cremers C
Abstract excerpt
Sensorineural hearing loss affects approximately 1 in 2 persons at about 80 years of age and 1 in 750 in childhood. The best known forms of hearing loss with an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance are the syndromic-mediated ones. At present, the non-syndromic autosomal dominant inherited forms can only be distinguished by the shape of the tone-audiogram. Based on gene linkage studies twelve different...
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