[Investigation report on the inherited characteristics of congenital preauricular fistula].
OBJECTIVE
To further analyse the inherited characteristics of congenital preauricular fistula.


METHODS
Analysed the familial incidence of 8 cases out of 73 (95 ears) which had been cured and investigated in our hospital in the past 16 years.


RESULTS
The disease could be inherited from either parents; It was of autosomal dominant in type; It was not sex-linked; They inherited either in the same side or both sides; It could be transferred between every other generations.


CONCLUSIONS
All these were resulted in that congenital preauricular fistula was autosomal dominant inheritance with incomplete dominant.
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Department of Otolaryngology, the Second Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou 510260.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004427:Ear Diseases / Q000235:genetics; D004431:Ear, External / Q000002:abnormalities*; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula / Q000151:congenital / Q000235:genetics*; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010375:Pedigree