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A -- GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTL STUDY OF HEARING LOSS IN NORD TRONDELAG COUNTY SOL NIH-DC-95-10 POC Jonathan S. Ferguson, Contract Specialist, (301) 496-4487. The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, intends to negotiate a three year contract with the Norwegian Institute for Public Health (Statens Institute for Folkehelse) to conduct an epidemiologic study to assess the genetic and environmental etiologies of hearing disorders and hearing loss. The Norwegian Institute for Public Health shall perform this effort as a subproject of an overall health screening project study on the adult population of Nord-Trondelag, Norway. Statutory authority: 41 U.S.C. 253 (c) (1), as set forth in FAR 6.302-1. The cited authority is applicable because the Norwegian Institute for Public Health is the only sources with access to the files to the Norwegian Central Bureau of Statistics which uses a unique persone number identifier to group individuals into familiar aggregations. (0094)

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