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TGen, Partners to Use Affy Chips to Study Genetic Underpinnings of Age-Related Hearing Loss

Sep 04, 2006
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute and the House Ear Institute have begun a study that will use Affymetrix GeneChips to identify the genes and genetic interactions involved in presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, TGen said last week.
 

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