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Genetic Analysis of Human Hereditary Hearing Impairment

14. december 2019 opdateret af: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

This studied is designed to discover the genes that cause hearing impairment. More precisely, this study aims to map and clone genes that are important for the development and maintenance of the anatomy and physiology related to hearing (auditory system).

The study will begin by finding large families who have members with hearing impairment. Once families are found, members with and without hearing impairment will be evaluated by an audiologist and a clinician (doctor). An audiologist, is a person trained in evaluating, habilitating, and rehabilitating people with disorders of hearing function. The clinician's responsibility is to examine the patients and check for other signs and symptoms related to hearing.

Finding the gene for hearing impairment requires:

  1. <TAB>DNA samples of hearing impaired family members, taken from standard blood samples.
  2. <TAB>DNA samples of members of the family without hearing impairment, taken from standard blood samples.
  3. <TAB>Results of hearing tests conducted by the audiologist for all participants.

Once all members of the family are evaluated researchers can create a pedigree. A pedigree is like a family tree that charts members of a family with a genetic disorder, like hearing impairment. Pedigrees are used to determine the mode of inheritance of the gene responsible for a particular condition.

Finally, researcher intend on using all the information gathered as well as methods for genetic analysis to map out the location of the gene. Patients participating in this study will not directly benefit from its research, but scientific understanding achieved may help researchers better understand the auditory system and someday prevent deafness.<TAB>...

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Detaljeret beskrivelse

The objective of this research project is to map and clone genes that are important for the normal development or maintenance of the auditory system. One strategy for identifying some of the genes important for auditory processes is to ascertain large families each with several hearing impaired individuals. Initial contact will be made by family physicians, audiologist, supervisors in schools for the hearing impaired, and directly by the principal investigators during surveys of schools for the deaf and visits with hearing impairment self-help groups. Members of a family will be evaluated by an audiologist, and instances of hearing impairment will be documented and categorized. A clinician would then examine hearing impaired and unaffected members of the family for the presence of other clinical features so as to distinguish between nonsyndromic and syndromic forms of hearing impairment. Pedigrees of these families will be analyzed to determine the mode of inheritance of the hereditary hearing impairment segregating in each family. Families will be ascertained through audiologists and other clinicians, genetics clinics, schools for the hearing impaired and through linguists and medical anthropologists who study unique sign languages and the sociology of communities with a high proportion of hearing impaired individuals. The mutated gene will then be genetically mapped by a linkage or association based strategy, using DNA typing of highly polymorphic genetic markers distributed across the human genome.

Undersøgelsestype

Observationel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

404

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

  • Forenede Stater
    • Maryland
      • Bethesda, Maryland, Forenede Stater, 20892
        • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike

Deltagelseskriterier

Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.

Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

  • Barn
  • Voksen
  • Ældre voksen

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Beskrivelse

  • INCLUSION CRITERIA:

It is anticipated that, in most cases, patients will be recruited whose disorders do not appear to be syndromic (i.e. are not associated with extra-auditory or extra-vestibular features).

We seek subjects who are members of large families with multiple individuals affected with a hearing disorder. Sporadic cases will occasionally be included when the phenotype has features suggestive of mutations in one or a few particular candidate genes, since autosomal or X-linked recessive inheritance can appear to be sporadic.

If there is evidence of genetic homogeneity, small families can be pooled for linkage analysis, or a combination of large and small families can be pooled.

Subjects of any ethnic background, gender, age, sexual orientation, or health status will be included.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

Patients will be excluded when their hearing or vestibular dysfunction are known to be caused by a nongenetic etiology such as trauma, infection, metabolic or immunologic disorders, or exposure to ototoxic agents such as noise or aminoglycoside antibiotics.

Studieplan

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Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

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Sponsor

National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

8. september 1997

Studieafslutning

7. april 2015

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

3. november 1999

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

3. november 1999

Først opslået (Skøn)

4. november 1999

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)

17. december 2019

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

14. december 2019

Sidst verificeret

7. april 2015

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Nøgleord

Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • 970180
  • 97-DC-0180

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