Novel Mutation in AIFM1 Gene Associated with X-Linked Deafness in a Moroccan Family.

Introduction: Auditory neuropathy is a hearing disorder where outer hair cell function within the cochlea is normal, but inner hair cell and/or the auditory nerve function is disrupted. It is a heterogeneous disorder, which can have either congenital or acquired causes.

Methods: We found a disease-segregating mutation in the X-linked AIFM1 gene through whole-exome sequencing, encoding the apoptosis-inducing factor mitochondrion-associated 1.

A homozygous MPZL2 deletion is associated with non syndromic hearing loss in a moroccan family.

Adhesion glycoproteins are implicated in the pathophysiology of hearing loss, the most frequent inherited sensory disorder, affecting 1 in 1000 new-borns. Exome sequencing of a consanguineous Moroccan patient with mild hearing loss identified for the first time in a North African family a single homozygous mutation c.72delA in MPZL2 gene, encoding the Myelin Protein Zero-Like 2, reported as causing deafness in two other populations.

Two novel homozygous missense mutations identified in the BSND gene in Moroccan patients with Bartter's syndrome.

Objectives: Hearing loss (HL) is one of the most common sensorineural disorders. In the present study, we identified two novel missense mutations in BSND gene causing Bartter syndrome type IV which is a genetic disease with an autosomal recessive transmission, characterized by hypokalaemia, metabolic alkalosis, an elevation in plasma renin activity and hyperaldosteronism as well as sensorineural deafness.

Methods: Whole-exome sequencing was performed to study the genetic causes of Hearing loss in two unrelated patients from two Moroccan families.

A novel mutation in SLITRK6 causes deafness and myopia in a Moroccan family.

Deafness and myopia syndrome is characterized by moderate-profound, bilateral, congenital or prelingual deafness and high myopia. Autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss is one of the most prevalent human genetic sensorineural defects. Myopia is by far the most common human eye disorder that is known to have a clear heritable component.

Homozygous mutations in PJVK and MYO15A genes associated with non-syndromic hearing loss in Moroccan families.

Objectives: Autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss is a heterogeneous disorder and the most prevalent human genetic sensorineural defect. In this study, we investigated the geneticcause of sensorineural hearing loss in Moroccan patients and presented the importance of whole exome sequencing (WES) to identify candidate genes in two Moroccan families with profound deafness.

Methods: After excluding mutations previously reported in Moroccan deaf patients, whole exome sequencing was performed and Sanger sequencing was used to validate mutations in these genes.