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Genetic susceptibility to bilateral tinnitus in a Swedish twin cohort

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2017-03-23

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Maas, Iris Lianne
Brüggemann, Petra
Requena, Teresa
Bulla, Jan
Edvall, Niklas K
Hjelmborg, Jacob V B
Szczepek, Agnieszka J
Canlon, Barbara
Mazurek, Birgit
Lopez-Escamez, Jose A

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Nature Publishing Group
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Genetic contributions to tinnitus have been difficult to determine due to the heterogeneity of the condition and its broad etiology. Here, we evaluated the genetic and nongenetic influences on self-reported tinnitus from the Swedish Twin Registry (STR).

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Genet Med advance online publication 23 March 2017

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Medical Subject Headings::Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic::Epidemiologic Studies::Cross-Sectional Studies
Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Biological Phenomena::Ecological and Environmental Phenomena::Environment
Medical Subject Headings::Check Tags::Female
Medical Subject Headings::Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Primates::Haplorhini::Catarrhini::Hominidae::Humans
Medical Subject Headings::Check Tags::Male
Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Genetic Phenomena::Phenotype
Medical Subject Headings::Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Data Collection::Registries
Medical Subject Headings::Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment::Investigative Techniques::Epidemiologic Methods::Data Collection::Questionnaires::Self Report
Medical Subject Headings::Geographical Locations::Geographic Locations::Europe::Scandinavia::Sweden
Medical Subject Headings::Diseases::Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases::Ear Diseases::Hearing Disorders::Tinnitus
Medical Subject Headings::Persons::Persons::Multiple Birth Offspring::Twins::Twins, Dizygotic

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Concordance, Gender, Heritability, Tinnitus, Twins, Estudios transversales, Ambiente, Femenino, Humanos, Masculino, Fenotipo, Sistema de registros, Autoinforme, Suecia, Acúfeno, Gemelos dicigóticos

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Maas IL, Brüggemann P, Requena T, Bulla J, Edvall NK, Hjelmborg JV et al. Genetic susceptibility to bilateral tinnitus in a Swedish twin cohort. Genet Med. 2017 Mar 23