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Hereditary sensorineural hearing loss: advances in molecular genetics and mutation analysis

Iris Schrijver Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Pathology & Pediatrics, L235, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. [email protected]
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Phyllis Gardner Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, L308A, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. [email protected]
Pages 375-386 | Published online: 09 Jan 2014

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Websites

  • OMIM™ – Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man™ www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM
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