| Literature DB >> 13679028 |
M W J Luijendijk1, T J R van de Pol, G van Duijnhoven, A I den Hollander, J ten Caat, V van Limpt, H G Brunner, H Kremer, F P M Cremers.
Abstract
To identify novel genes that are expressed specifically or preferentially in the cochlea, we constructed a cDNA library enriched for human cochlear cDNAs using a suppression subtractive hybridization technique. We analyzed 2640 clones by sequencing and BLAST similarity searches. One hundred and fifty-five different cDNA fragments mapped in nonsyndromic hearing impairment loci for which the causative gene has not been cloned yet. Approximately 30% of the clones show no similarity to any known human gene or expressed sequence tag (EST). Clones mapping in nonsyndromic deafness loci and a selection of clones that represent novel ESTs were analyzed by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) of RNA derived from 12 human fetal tissues. Our data suggest that a quarter of the novel genes in our library are preferentially expressed in fetal cochlea. These may play a physiologically important role in the hearing process and represent candidate genes for hereditary hearing impairment.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 13679028 DOI： 10.1016/s0888-7543(03)00150-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genomics ISSN： 0888-7543 Impact factor: 5.736