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1: Hum Mol Genet. 1994 Jun;3(6):989-93.Click here to read Links

A human gene responsible for neurosensory, non-syndromic recessive deafness is a candidate homologue of the mouse sh-1 gene.

Unité de Génétique Moléculaire Humaine, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

The identification of mouse models for the various forms of human neurosensory non-syndromic recessive deafness would constitute a major advance in the study of human deafness. Here we describe the localization of a human gene for neurosensory, nonsyndromic recessive deafness (NSRD2) to chromosome 11q13.5 by linkage analysis of a highly consanguineous family. A maximum lod score of 10.63 (theta = 0.018) was obtained for the microsatellite marker D11S527. Homozygosity mapping refined the localization of NSRD2 to a 6 cM interval also containing the olfactory marker protein (OMP) gene. The murine homologue of OMP is tightly linked to the autosomal recessive deafness gene sh-1. These results, and clinical data, suggest that NSRD2 is the human homologue of the mouse sh-1 gene.

PMID: 7951250 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]