Detection and risk analysis of hereditary deafness / 国际生物医学工程杂志

Hereditary hearing impairment is caused by genetic defects and is a common clinical disease. Since the lack of efficient treatment method, genetic counseling is more important in this field. It provides information about inherited disorders and focuses on assessment and interpretation of the risk for occurrence of genetic conditions in the family. Presented in this paper are classification of hereditary hearing impairment and methods to perform probability analysis using features of pathogenic genes and information of pedigree.