Linkage of usher syndrome type I gene (USH1B) to the long arm of chromosome 11

W. J. Kimberling, C. G. Möller, S. Davenport, I. A. Priluck, P. H. Beighton, J. Greenberg, W. Reardon, M. D. Weston, J. B. Kenyon, J. A. Grunkemeyer, S. Pieke Dahl, L. D. Overbeck, D. J. Blackwood, A. M. Brower, D. M. Hoover, P. Rowland, R. J.H. Smith

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    Abstract

    Usher syndrome is the most commonly recognized cause of combined visual and hearing loss in technologically developed countries. There are several different types and all are inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. There may be as many as five different genes responsible for at least two closely related phenotypes. The nature of the gene defects is unknown, and positional cloning strategies are being employed to identify the genes. This is a report of the localization of one gene for Usher syndrome type I to chromosome 11q, probably distal to marker D11S527. Another USH1 gene had been previously localized to chromosome 14q, and this second localization establishes the existence of a new and independent locus for Usher syndrome.

    Original languageEnglish (US)
    Pages (from-to)988-994
    Number of pages7
    JournalGenomics
    Volume14
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    StatePublished - Dec 1992

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Genetics

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