Attitudes to carrier screening for deafness genes

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Journal of Medical Ethics 30 (5):469-469 (2004)
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About one child in a thousand in Britain is born deaf. The cause is genetic in about 60% of cases and about 30% of genetic deafness is syndromic and 70% non-syndromic. About 80% of non-syndromic genetic deafness is thought to be caused by recessive genes. About 33 recessive genes for non-syndromic deafness have been mapped …

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