Amritkumar, Pavithra
Jeffrey, Justin Margret
Chandru, Jayasankaran
Vanniya S, Paridhy
Kalaimathi, M.
Ramakrishnan, Rajagopalan
Karthikeyen, N. P.
Srikumari Srisailapathy, C. R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
University Grants Commission (F.No.37-443/2009(SR))
Indian Council of Medical Research (5/8/10-17(Oto)/CFP/2011-NCD-I)
Article History
Received: 23 January 2018
Accepted: 18 May 2018
First Online: 19 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This research work involved the participation of humans in the form of deaf families and normal hearing volunteers. All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Institutional Human Ethical Committee of the University of Madras, Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chennai, India, approved the study (Ref Nos: PGIBMS/CO/Human Ethical/2010–11/1458, PGIBMS/CO/Human Ethical/2011–12/546, IHEC Approval No: UM/IHEC/11–2013-I). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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