| Title: | The genetic contribution of the X chromosome in age-related hearing loss |
| Journal: | Frontiers in Genetics |
| Published: | 21 Feb 2023 |
| Pubmed: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36896235/ |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2023.1106328 |
| URL: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fgene.2023.1106328/pdf |
Publication 11115
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Abstract
Age-related (AR) hearing loss (HL) is the most common sensory impairment with heritability of 55%. The aim of this study was to identify genetic variants on chromosome X associated with ARHL through the analysis of data obtained from the UK Biobank. We performed association analysis between self-reported measures of HL and genotyped and imputed variants on chromosome X from ∼460,000 white Europeans. We identified three loci associated with ARHL with a genome-wide significance level (p < 5 × 10-8), ZNF185 (rs186256023, p = 4.9 × 10-10) and MAP7D2 (rs4370706, p = 2.3 × 10-8) in combined analysis of males and females, and LOC101928437 (rs138497700, p = 8.9 × 10-9) in the sex-stratified analysis of males. In-silico mRNA expression analysis showed MAP7D2 and ZNF185 are expressed in mice and adult human inner ear tissues, particularly in the inner hair cells. We estimated that only a small amount of variation of ARHL, 0.4%, is explained by variants on the X chromosome. This study suggests that although there are likely a few genes contributing to ARHL on the X chromosome, the role that the X chromosome plays in the etiology of ARHL may be limited.</p>
7 Authors
- Elnaz Naderi
- Diana M. Cornejo-Sanchez
- Guangyou Li
- Isabelle Schrauwen
- Gao T. Wang
- Andrew T. Dewan
- Suzanne M. Leal
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