An investigation of voice quality in individuals with inherited elastin gene abnormalities.
The human elastin gene (ELN) is responsible for the generation of elastic fibres in the extracellular matrix of connective tissue throughout the body, including the vocal folds. Individuals with Supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS) and Williams syndrome (WS) lack one normal ELN allele due to heteroz...
| Published in: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 199 - 214 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2008
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