Attitudes to carrier screening for deafness genes
About one child in a thousand in Britain is born deaf. The cause is genetic in about 60% of cases (0.6 per 1000 births) and about 30% of genetic deafness (0.18 per thousand births) is syndromic and 70% (0.42 per 1000 births) non-syndromic (no other clinical features). About 80% of non-syndromic gene...
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| Language: | English |
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BMJ Publ.
2004
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| In: |
Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2004, Volume: 30, Issue: 5, Pages: 469 |
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| Summary: | About one child in a thousand in Britain is born deaf. The cause is genetic in about 60% of cases (0.6 per 1000 births) and about 30% of genetic deafness (0.18 per thousand births) is syndromic and 70% (0.42 per 1000 births) non-syndromic (no other clinical features). About 80% of non-syndromic genetic deafness (about a third of all congenital deafness) is thought to be caused by recessive genes. About 33 recessive genes for non-syndromic deafness have been mapped … |
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| ISSN: | 1473-4257 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of medical ethics
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