Autozygosity mapping of autosomal recessive non-syndromic sensorineural hearing loss (ARNSSNHL)
- Univ. of Leeds (United Kingdom); and others
Congenital deafness affects about 1 in 2000 persons and is of genetic origin in approximately half these cases. The majority of congenital deafness is non-syndromic and over 75% of cases are compatible with autosomal recessive inheritance. Mapping of the loci responsible for ARNSSNHL will be complicated by genetic heterogeneity. Our approach to isolating genes involved in ARNSSNHL is by autozygosity mapping which involves the genetic analysis of children resulting from consanguineous marriages with the aim of identifying regions of homozygosity unique to the genomes of affected individuals which have been inherited from a common ancestor. The population employed in this study is the Pakistani community of Leeds, Bradford and Manchester in the UK which originated from the Mirpur region of Pakistan. Microsatellite analysis of the genome with markers spaced, on average, 10 cM apart is in progress and the investigation of 15 consanguineous families has identified one family which shows linkage to human chromosome 13q. This family appears to be linked to the same autosomal recessive deafness locus as two Tunisian families recently described and confirms that this chromosome 13q locus is also responsible, although as a minor contributor, to the deafness observed in the Pakistani population.
- OSTI ID:
- 133991
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-941009-; ISSN 0002-9297; TRN: 95:005313-0726
- Journal Information:
- American Journal of Human Genetics, Vol. 55, Issue Suppl.3; Conference: 44. annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Montreal (Canada), 18-22 Oct 1994; Other Information: PBD: Sep 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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