Project Details
Description
Hearing impairment is the ubiquitous condition which results in significant
societal, economic and psychological diseases at all ages. The cause of
more than one half of these diseases and disorders resulting in hearing
impairment are genetic, The conference on Genetics of Hearing Impairment
will present new critical advances in genetics which are related to hearing
impairment. These will include the application of molecular genetics to
human hearing disorders; the role of animal models; a critical presentation
of syndromic, non-syndromic and polygenic varieties of hearing
impairment;the relation of genetics to human variation in hearing: the
application of human genetics to diagnosis, treatment, councelling and
ethics. There has been no recent conference or major publication which
concerns the genetics of hearing impairment. As the last two major
publications in this area were published in 1976. Nor were there any major
conferences concerning the topic of genetics of hearing impairment since
the publication of these two books more than a decade ago. There is now a
critical body of specific knowledge concerning the genetics of impairment,
which combined with contemporary advances in genetics in general and of
human genetics in particular, will allow for a coherent, purposeful and
effective conference and publication, which should quantitatively advance
knowledge in the area of genetic hearing loss. The conference will result
in th publication of the present state of the knowledge in genetic hearing
impairments. This will serve as an effective stimulus for increased
scientific endeavor in this area of human disease. The format of the New
York Academy of Sciences has been chosen so as to gain maximum scientific
input and a wide distribution of the proceedings of the conference.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 7/16/90 → 6/30/91 |
ASJC
- Genetics(clinical)
- Speech and Hearing
- Molecular Medicine
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Otorhinolaryngology
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