Abstract
Classical studies have demonstrated genetic heterogeneity for nonsyndromic autosomal recessive congenital neurosensory deafness, with at least six loci postulated. Linkage analysis in two consanguineous Tunisian kindreds has demonstrated that one such deafness locus, DFNB1, maps near chromosome 13 markers D13S175, D13S143, and D13S115. We tested these markers for cosegregation with deafness in 18 New Zealand and 1 Australian nonconsanguineous kindreds, each of which included at least two siblings with nonsyndromic presumed congenital sensorineural deafness and that had a pedigree structure consistent with autosomal recessive inheritance. When all families were combined, a peak two-point lod score of 2.547 (theta = .1) was obtained for D13S175, 0.780 (theta = .2) for D13S143, and 0.664 (theta = .3) for D13S115. While there was no statistically significant evidence for heterogeneity at any of the three loci tested, nine families showed cosegregation of marker haplotypes with deafness. These observations suggest that the DFNB1 locus may make an important contribution to autosomal recessive neurosensory deafness in a Caucasian population. In the nine cosegregating families, phenotypic variation was observed both within sibships (in four families), which indicates that variable expressivity characterizes some genotypes at the DFNB1 locus, and between generations (in two families), which suggests allelic heterogeneity.
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