Genome Biology

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Opinion

Focusing on the genetics of hearing: you ain't heard nothin' yet

Nick Parkinson and Steve DM Brown*

Author Affiliations

MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit and UK Mouse Genome Centre, Harwell, OX11 ORD, UK

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Genome Biology 2002, 3:comment2006-comment2006.6 doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-6-comment2006

Published: 28 May 2002

Abstract

The complexity of genetic pathways for hearing is beginning to be amenable to unraveling by systematic functional genomic analysis. Genome-wide mutagenesis studies in the mouse are beginning to shed further light on the structure and regulation of the machinery of hearing.