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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-8-30
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Hearing impairment is frequently found associated with pigmentary disorders in many syndromes. However, total oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) associated with deafness has been described only once, by Ziprkowski and Adam (Arch Dermatol 89:151-155, 1964) in an inbred family. A syndrome associating deafness and OCA was suggested by the authors, but two separate recessive genes segregating in this inbred group were also proposed later by Fraser (OMIM # 220900). Combined deafness and total OCA were also observed by us in a family originally reported to be nonconsanguineous but in which haplotyping showed evidence of a common ancestry: the proband was affected by both diseases, one of his sisters had only OCA and another sister had only deafness. Both the proband and his deaf sister were found to be homozygotes for the 35delG mutation (GJB2 gene), the most frequent cause of hereditary deafness. Linkage analysis with markers close to the four known OCA loci excluded linkage to OCA1, OCA2, and OCA3, and homozygosity in markers near OCA4 locus was observed. Sequencing of the corresponding gene (MATP) revealed a c.1121delT mutation, which leads to a stop codon at position 397 (L374fsX397). Clearly, the combined occurrence of deafness and albinism in this pedigree was due to mutations in two different genes, showing autosomal recessive inheritance. We speculate that the putative syndrome reported by Ziprkowski and Adam might have resulted from the co-occurrence of autosomal recessive deafness and albinism in the same pedigree, as suggested by Fraser.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1434-5161
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
51
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
716-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Albinism, Oculocutaneous, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Antigens, Neoplasm, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Audiometry, Pure-Tone, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Child, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-DNA Mutational Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Deafness, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Exons, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Female, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Genes, Recessive, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Haplotypes, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Heterozygote, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Male, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Membrane Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Membrane Transport Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Pedigree, pubmed-meshheading:16868655-Syndrome
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Is autosomal recessive deafness associated with oculocutaneous albinism a "coincidence syndrome"?
pubmed:affiliation
Centro de Estudos do Genoma Humano, Departamento de Genética e Biologia Evolutiva, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 11461, 05422-970, São Paulo, Brazil.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't