Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics and John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.
Clin Genet. 2012 Mar;81(3):289-93. doi: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2011.01654.x. Epub 2011 Mar 15.
Hereditary deafness is a genetically heterogeneous phenotype for which more than 100 genomic loci have been identified thus far. By analysis of a consanguineous Palestinian family, GPSM2 was recently discovered to be the cause of autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss DFNB82. Here, we report a second truncating mutation, GPSM2 p.Q562X, identified via autozygosity mapping in a consanguineous Turkish family. This report provides evidence for allelic heterogeneity of GPSM2 and confirms its causative role for non-syndromic deafness.
遗传性耳聋是一种遗传异质性表型,迄今为止已经确定了 100 多个基因组位点。通过对一个巴勒斯坦近亲家庭的分析,最近发现 GPSM2 是常染色体隐性非综合征性听力损失 DFNB82 的致病基因。在这里,我们报告了第二个截短突变 GPSM2 p.Q562X,该突变是通过对一个近亲土耳其家庭的自交分析确定的。本报告提供了 GPSM2 等位基因异质性的证据,并证实了其在非综合征性耳聋中的致病作用。