title: [Investigation report on the inherited characteristics of congenital preauricular fistula].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, the Second Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou 510260.
authors.forename: M X
authors.initials: MX
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: 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