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Sex‐linked deaf‐mutism
Author(s) -
RICHARDS B. W.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
annals of human genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.537
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1469-1809
pISSN - 0003-4800
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-1809.1963.tb01975.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , audiology , sex linkage , genetics , biology , gene , medicine , chromosome
SUMMARY A family is described containing six deaf‐mute males in four different sibships, showing maternal transmission. Although sex‐limitation cannot be excluded, it is suggested that the disease is due to a sex‐linked recessive gene.