Inheritance patterns of progressive hearing loss in laboratory strains of mice.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2009
Keywords
Animals, Disease-Models-Animal, Disease-Progression, Hearing-Loss, Humans, Inheritance-Patterns, Mice-Inbred-Strains, Mutation, Phenotype, Species-Specificity
First Page
42
Last Page
51
JAX Source
Brain Res 2009 Jun; 1277:42-51.
Abstract
Positional cloning of mouse deafness mutations uncovered a plethora of proteins that have important functions in the peripheral auditory system in particular in the cochlear organ of Corti and stria vascularis. Most of these mutant variants follow a monogenic form of inheritance and are rare, highly penetrant, and deleterious alleles. Inbred and heterogenous strains of mice, in contrast, present with non-syndromic hearing impairment due to the effects of multiple genes and hypomorphic and less penetrant alleles that are often transmitted in a non-Mendelian manner. Here we review hearing loss inheritance patterns as they were discovered in different strains of mice and discuss the relevance of candidate genes to late-onset progressive hearing impairment in mouse and human.
Recommended Citation
Noben TK,
Johnson KR.
Inheritance patterns of progressive hearing loss in laboratory strains of mice. Brain Res 2009 Jun; 1277:42-51.