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Genetic Hearing Loss Overview

A Eliot Shearer  1 , Michael S Hildebrand  2 , Amanda M Odell  3 , Richard JH Smith  3
Margaret P Adam, Sarah Bick, Ghayda M Mirzaa, Stephanie E Wallace, Anne Amemiya
, editors.
In: GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993.
[updated ].
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Genetic Hearing Loss Overview

A Eliot Shearer et al.
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Excerpt

The purpose of this GeneReview is to:

  1. 1

    Describe the audiometric and clinical aspects of genetic hearing loss;

  2. 2

    Review the causes of genetic hearing loss;

  3. 3

    Review the differential diagnosis of genetic hearing loss;

  4. 4

    Explain the evaluation strategy to identify the genetic cause of hearing loss in a proband;

  5. 5

    Review the management of genetic hearing loss;

  6. 6

    Inform the genetic counseling of an individual with genetic hearing loss and their family members.

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