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Genetics of vestibular disorders: pathophysiological insights

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2016-04-01

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Frejo, Lidia
Giegling, Ina
Teggi, Roberto
Lopez-Escamez, Jose A.
Rujescu, Dan

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Springer heidelberg
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The two most common vestibular disorders are motion sickness and vestibular migraine, affecting 30 and 1-2 % of the population respectively. Both are related to migraine and show a familial trend. Bilateral vestibular hypofunction is a rare condition, and some of patients also present cerebellar ataxia and neuropathy. We present recent advances in the genetics of vestibular disorders with familial aggregation. The clinical heterogeneity observed in different relatives of the same families suggests a variable penetrance and the interaction of several genes in each family. Some Mendelian sensorineural hearing loss also exhibits vestibular dysfunction, including DFNA9, DFNA11, DFNA15 and DFNA28. However, the most relevant finding during the past years is the familial clustering observed in Meniere's disease. By using whole exome sequencing and combining bioinformatics tools, novel variants in DTNA and FAM136A genes have been identified in familial Meniere's disease, and this genomic strategy will facilitate the discovery of the genetic basis of familial vestibular disorders.

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Vestibular disorders, Whole exome sequencing, Vestibular migraine, Motion sickness, Meniere disease, Familial hemiplegic migraine, Dominant hearing-loss, Menieres-disease, Inner-ear, Nonsyndromic deafness, Diagnostic-criteria, Molecular analysis, Endolymphatic sac, Mutation analysis, Mainland chinese

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