It is for this reason that many researchers have turned to mouse models. Finally, the combined risk from these alleles fails to account for the majority of the genetic risk.Īlthough many insights have been gleaned for many human diseases utilizing GWAS and candidate gene studies, only a modest proportion of the genetic risk has been explained for most traits and the effects of environmental exposures such as noise are difficult to control.
Unfortunately, many of these studies have low statistical power due to small sample sizes and lack replication. We have recently identified variations in GRM7 associated with ARHI in a European cohort and validated our findings in a US cohort Įstimates from human twin studies suggest that the heritability of NIHL is approximately 36% and candidate gene studies using single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have identified a small number of potential susceptibility genes. Recently, genome wide association studies (GWAS) have been employed to discover genes conferring susceptibility to complex traits in humans. We are able to exploit the evidence that there are genetic and environmental factors influencing ARHI and NIHL. Identifying susceptibility genes will ultimately inform treatment strategies for these two ailments. Moreover, studies in both humans and mice have shown evidence that the effects of noise exposure and aging combine, leading to a faster progression of hearing loss with age. In addition, an increasing number of teenagers and adolescents are using personal listening devices and listening to music at damaging levels with significant threshold shifts at high frequency and decreased distortion product otoacoustic emission (DPOAE) amplitudes. Several reports have shown that this age group reports symptoms of hearing loss and a cohort of children and adolescents aged 6 to 19 were found to have audiometric evidence of NIHL. Of concern, adolescents and young adults are increasingly exposed to hazardous levels of noise during social activities. Noise-induced hearing loss is the most common preventable form of sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) worldwide and approximately 500 million individuals are exposed to hazardous levels of noise in occupational and social environments. Age-related hearing loss is one of the most common sensory abnormalities in the world, affecting 30% of people by the age of 65. The two most common forms of hearing loss in our society are age-related (ARHI) and noise-induced (NIHL). This suggests that FVB/NJ may be used as an additional genetic model for neural forms of progressive hearing loss and for the study of youthful sensitivity to noise. We demonstrate that FVB/NJ exhibits ARHI at an earlier age than CBA/CaJ and young FVB/NJ mice are vulnerable to NIHL up until 10 to 12 weeks. For these reasons, we have studied the FVB/NJ mouse for ARHI and NIHL phenotypes in hopes of incorporating its phenotype into HMDP studies. FVB/NJ is part of the HMDP and has been previously described as having a similar ARHI phenotype to CBA/CaJ. The CBA/CaJ strain's youthful sensitivity to noise and limited age-related loss led us to attempt to identify additional strains segregating a similar phenotype for our panel.
Hearing is a complex trait and the CBA/CaJ mouse strain is a widely used model for age-related hearing loss (ARHI) and noise induced hearing loss (NIHL).
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“Yay! We are home! We can go right back to where we left off our video game!” cried the Right children, and they ran right into the house and left their parents to close their car doors.Ī printable PDF of the Left Right story is available here.The hybrid mouse diversity panel (HMDP), a panel of 100 strains, has been employed in genome wide association studies (GWAS) to study complex traits in mice. Right drove the car back into the drive way and parked the car right where he had left from only a few minutes before. Right continued “I guess all the shopping that I have left to do will have to wait until another day.” Right agreed and turned right to head right back home.
Right “Since there appears to be no parking left maybe we should go right back home right now.” Right turned right down one lane and left onto another – he couldn’t find a single parking spot left to park in! The Right family arrived at the mall right at what appeared to the same time as the entire town! “I love the smells,” said the youngest Right child. “I love all the lights.” Said the oldest Right child. Right, as he backed right out their driveway and turned left “but I do enjoy looking at all the Christmas decorations.” “I don’t have a lot left to do,” said Mr. “I am so excited to be going shopping” said Mrs. Right and the two Right children rushed right out their front door and into their car.
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