Genetic Hearing Loss

Published:
October 17, 2003 by CRC Press - 406 Pages
Editor(s):
Patrick J. Willems, Kontich, Belgium

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ISBN 9780824743093
Cat# DK2876
 

Features

  • describes the normal development of the ear
  • updates the classification and epidemiology of hearing loss
  • surveys the usage of audiometric tests and diagnostic medical examinations
  • illuminates the most important syndromes associated with hearing loss such as Usher, Pendred, and Waardenburg syndromes
  • discusses the maternal inheritance patterns of mitochondrial hearing loss
  • provides a roadmap to gene localization and isolation in nonsyndromic hearing loss, exploring connexins, tectorins, myosins, ion channels, and other disease genes
  • highlights otosclerosis, one of the most common types of hearing loss
  • considers mechanisms regulating hair cell differentiation and regeneration
  • elucidates the future of genetic testing for hearing loss

    • Summary

    Heredity, either alone or in combination with environmental factors, is the most prominent underlying cause of hearing impairment. Thanks in large part to positional cloning techniques, scientists have identified nearly 100 gene loci implicated in hearing loss since 1995-an extraordinarily rapid rate of gene identification.
    Genetic Hearing Loss branches into syndromic and nonsyndromic categorical directions in its coverage of the genetics behind hearing loss. Authored by 60 internationally recognized researchers, the book describes the normal development of the ear, updates the classification and epidemiology of hearing loss, and surveys the usage of audiometric tests and diagnostic medical examinations.

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