Screening of Myo7A Mutations in Iranian Patients with Autosomal Recessive Hearing Loss from West of Iran

Hearing loss (HL) is the most frequent neurosensory impairment. HL is highly heterogeneous defect. This disorder affects 1 out of 500 newborns. This study aimed to determine the role of DFNB2 locus and frequency of gene mutations in a population from west of Iran. Thirty families investigated in Sha...

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Published in:Iranian journal of public health 2017-01, Vol.46 (1), p.76-82
Main Authors: Asgharzade, Samira, Reiisi, Somayeh, Tabatabaiefar, Mohammad Amin, Chaleshtori, Morteza Hashemzadeh
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Amino acids
Colleges & universities
Deafness
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DFNB2
DNA
Genes
Genetic engineering
Hearing loss
Investigations
Iran
Linkage analysis
Mutation
MYO7A
Original
Proteins
Thermal cycling
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Summary:Hearing loss (HL) is the most frequent neurosensory impairment. HL is highly heterogeneous defect. This disorder affects 1 out of 500 newborns. This study aimed to determine the role of DFNB2 locus and frequency of gene mutations in a population from west of Iran. Thirty families investigated in Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences in 2014, genetic linkage analysis via four short tandem repeat markers linked to was performed for two consanguineous families originating from Hamedan (family-13) and Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari (family-32) provinces of Iran, co-segregating autosomal recessive HL and showed no mutation in gene in our preliminary investigation. All 49 coding exons and exon- intron boundaries of the gene were amplified by PCR and analyzed using direct DNA sequencing. Two of families displayed linkage to DFNB2. Family-13 segregated a homozygous missense mutation (c.6487G>A) in exon 48 that results in a p.G2163S amino acid substitution in C-terminal domain of the myosin VIIA protein. While family-32 segregated a homozygous nonsense mutation (c.448 C>T) in exon five, resulting in a premature truncation at amino acid position 150 (p.Arg150X) in the motor domain of this protein. Mutation frequency of gene in different populations of Iran as well as cause of HL in most cases are still unknown and more extensive studies have to be done.
ISSN:2251-6085
2251-6093