Autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing impairment (ARNSHI) is the most frequent form of prelingual hereditary hearing loss in humans. Between 75 and 80% of all nonsyndromic deafness is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern. Using linkage analysis, we have mapped a novel gene responsible for this form of nonsyndromic hearing impairment, DFNB65, in a consanguineous family from the Azad Jammu and Kashmir regions, which border Pakistan and India. A maximum multipoint LOD score of 3.3 was obtained at marker D20S840. The three-unit support interval is contained between markers D20S902 and D20S430, while the region of homozygosity is flanked by markers D20S480 and D20S430. The novel locus maps to a 10.5-cM region on chromosome 20q13.2-q13.32 and corresponds to a physical map distance of 4.3 Mb. DFNB65 represents the first ARNSHI locus to map to chromosome 20.
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