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. 1989 Jan;44(1):86–99.

On the genetics of prelingual deafness.

P P Majumder 1, A Ramesh 1, D Chinnappan 1
PMCID: PMC1715451  PMID: 2909169

Abstract

In view of the many discordant findings in previous studies regarding the genetics of prelingual deafness, family data (133 nuclear families and 25 pedigrees) were gathered from India. Analysis of these data has revealed that the defect is primarily genetic, which is in agreement with earlier findings. Segregation analysis was performed to compare various autosomal diallelic one-locus and multilocus models. Our analysis revealed that the most parsimonious model for prelingual deafness is that it is controlled by recessive genes at a pair of unlinked diallelic autosomal loci. Individuals are affected if and only if they are recessive homozygous at both loci. The likelihood of the present data under this two-locus multiple recessive homozygosis model is at least 10(8) times higher than that of the one-locus models that were examined in previous studies. This model is also the best-fitting model among other plausible two-locus models.

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