Genetic Hearing Loss

Genetic Hearing Loss branches into syndromic and nonsyndromic categorical directions in its coverage of the genetics behind hearing loss.

Patrick J. Willems

Hearing and hearing loss: normal development of the ear in the human and mouse, audiometric tests and diagnostic workup, classification and epidemiology of hearing loss, Syndromic hearing loss: Usher syndrome, pendred syndrome, Waardenburg syndrome, Nielsensyndrome,  HDR syndrome, branchio-oto-renal syndrome, Treacher Collins syndrome, MYH9,  mitochondrial hearingloss, Genes responsible for nonsyndromic hearing loss: gene localization and isolation in nonsyndromic hearing loss, connexins, myosin VI, K+ channel gene KCNQ4, COL11A2, POU-Domain transcription factors, a-Tectorin P. EYA4 DFNA 5 COCH Diaphanous, Claudin 14 CDH23 TMPRSS33, otosclerosis. Miscellaneous factors: mechanisms that regulate hair cell differentiation and regeneration, genetic testing - possibilitiesand attitudes.