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By Charles I. Berlin, Bronya J. Keats

For medical researchers in audiology and otolaryngology, this 5th e-book within the Kresge- Mirmelstein Award sequence positive factors the court cases of the 1998 symposium. The ebook contains contributions from top researchers on genetic motives of listening to loss and contains a CD-ROM containing audio and video pictures from a Balinese village with a wide genetically deaf inhabitants that experience followed an indication language indigenous to their tradition. The CD-ROM additionally positive aspects samples of yankee signal Language and Cued Speech. within the culture of Berlin's prior paintings this ebook offers lovely new and evocative details for either researchers and clinicians.

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The advantage of the latter approach is that you know before starting whether there is a phenotype (deafness) that is of interest to you, although the disadvantage is that positional cloning still represents a considerable effort. However, positional cloning in the mouse is still somewhat easier than positional cloning of human deafness genes. Having identified a mouse deafness gene, it is a relatively straightforward step to clone the orthologous human gene and search for mutations in it in deaf humans.

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