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Genetic hearing loss / edited by Patrick J. Willems. - New York : Marcel Dekker, c2004. - xiv, 483 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hearing and hearing loss: normal development of the ear in the human and mouse, audiometric tests and diagnostic workup, classification and epidemiology of hearing loss, Syndromic hearing loss: Usher syndrome, pendred syndrome, Waardenburg syndrome, Nielsensyndrome, HDR syndrome, branchio-oto-renal syndrome, Treacher Collins syndrome, MYH9, mitochondrial hearingloss, Genes responsible for nonsyndromic hearing loss: gene localization and isolation in nonsyndromic hearing loss, connexins, myosin VI, K+ channel gene KCNQ4, COL11A2, POU-Domain transcription factors, a-Tectorin P. EYA4 DFNA 5 COCH Diaphanous, Claudin 14 CDH23 TMPRSS33, otosclerosis. Miscellaneous factors: mechanisms that regulate hair cell differentiation and regeneration, genetic testing - possibilitiesand attitudes.

ISBN: 0824743091 (alk. paper)

LCCN: 2003062467

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Deafness--Genetic aspects.
Hearing Loss--congenital.
Hearing Loss--genetics.
Ear--abnormalities.
Molecular Biology.

LC Class. No.: RF292 / .G455 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 617.804 2 WIL

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WV 270 / G32683 2004