Genetic hearing loss / 
edited by Patrick J. Willems. 
 - New York :  Marcel Dekker,  c2004. 
 - xiv, 483 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0824743091 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003062467 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Deafness--Genetic aspects.<br/>Hearing Loss--congenital.<br/>Hearing Loss--genetics.<br/>Ear--abnormalities.<br/>Molecular Biology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RF292  / .G455 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>617.804 2 WIL 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WV 270  / G32683 2004