Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

A large scale hearing loss screen reveals an extensive unexplored genetic landscape for auditory dysfunction

  • Michael R. Bowl,
  • Michelle M. Simon,
  • Neil J. Ingham,
  • Simon Greenaway,
  • Luis Santos,
  • Heather Cater,
  • Sarah Taylor,
  • Jeremy Mason,
  • Natalja Kurbatova,
  • Selina Pearson,
  • Lynette R. Bower,
  • Dave A. Clary,
  • Hamid Meziane,
  • Patrick Reilly,
  • Osamu Minowa,
  • Lois Kelsey,
  • The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium,
  • Glauco P. Tocchini-Valentini,
  • Xiang Gao,
  • Allan Bradley,
  • William C. Skarnes,
  • Mark Moore,
  • Arthur L. Beaudet,
  • Monica J. Justice,
  • John Seavitt,
  • Mary E. Dickinson,
  • Wolfgang Wurst,
  • Martin Hrabe de Angelis,
  • Yann Herault,
  • Shigeharu Wakana,
  • Lauryl M. J. Nutter,
  • Ann M. Flenniken,
  • Colin McKerlie,
  • Stephen A. Murray,
  • Karen L. Svenson,
  • Robert E. Braun,
  • David B. West,
  • K. C. Kent Lloyd,
  • David J. Adams,
  • Jacqui White,
  • Natasha Karp,
  • Paul Flicek,
  • Damian Smedley,
  • Terrence F. Meehan,
  • Helen E. Parkinson,
  • Lydia M. Teboul,
  • Sara Wells,
  • Karen P. Steel,
  • Ann-Marie Mallon,
  • Steve D. M. Brown

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00595-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The full extent of the genetic basis for hearing impairment is unknown. Here, as part of the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium, the authors perform a hearing loss screen in 3006 mouse knockout strains and identify 52 new candidate genes for genetic hearing loss.