Developments in Genetic Hearing Impairment

by Stephens, Dafydd; Read, Andrew P.; Martini, Alessandro

• ISBN13: 9781861560582
• ISBN10: 1861560583
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-16
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

This book comprises the first volume of a series which reports the outcomes of the European Union Concerted Action Programme on Genetic Hearing Impairment. The aim is to bring together clinical geneticists and audiologists, as well as basic scientists and other clinicians with a general interest in this field, to standardise the audiological and terminological approaches and publish state of the art interdisciplinary studies.

Author Biography

Dafydd Stephens FRCP, is Honorary Professor of Audiological Medicine at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Sophia E. Kramer, PhD, is Senior Researcher and Psychologist at the Department of E.N.T. / Audiology / EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research at the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Preface

Contributors

Gene therapy

Gene therapy for hearing disorders

Radiology

Radiology of inner ear defects

Computer Systems

An Internet database on genetic non-syndromal hearing impairments

A decision support system for the diagnosis of syndromal genetic hearing impairment

Epidemiology

Epidemiology of hereditary hearing impairment in childhood - preliminary estimates from the European Union

The German Registry for Hearing Impairment in Children: preliminary results

Recessive hearing impairment in two birth cohorts in western Sicily

Aetiology of hearing impairment in children borth in northern Finland ijn 1975-1979 and in 1985-1989 (Abstract)

Audiovestibular tests

Audiometric criteria for linkage analysis in genetic hearing impairment

Audioscan notches in carriers of genetic hearing impairment

Cochlear irregulatities in obligate carriers of recessive genetic hearing impairment and in control subjects

Three-dimensional video-oculography for the detection of genetic vestibular dysfunction at the level of the threee semicircular canals and the otoliths (Abstract)

Non-syndromal autosomal recessive hearing impairment

Homozygosity mapping applied to hereditary hearing impairment - localizing recessive deafness genes

A Turkish kindred with autosomal recessive non-syndromal hearing impairment segregates DFNB9 (Abstract)

Assessment of the contribution of the loci DFNA1-10 and DFNB1-9 in inherited hearing impairment in two populations: The United Arab Emirates and the British Pakistani populations (Abstract)

Non-syndromal autosomal dominant hearing impairment

Hereditary dominant non-syndromal progressive hearing impairment in a large family in southern Italy

Autosomal dominant non-syndromal progressive sensorineural hearing impairment: audiological evalution of a Dutch DFNA2 family (Abstract)

Autosomal dominant congenital severe sensorineural hearing impairment - localization of a disease gene to chromosome 11q by linkage in an Austrian family (Abstract)

X-Linked hearing impairment Chapter

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