HLA Class II-Associated Genetic Susceptibility in Idiopathic Progressive Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Abstract

To investigate the association between genes in the major histocompatibility complex and inner ear disease susceptibility at the DNA level, high-resolution genotyping for HLA class II (HLA-DR, -DQ, -DP) was performed by polymerase chain reaction-sequence-specific oligonucleotide reverse dot blot and polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis in 34 patients with idiopathic progressive sensorineural hearing loss (PSHL) and in 214 controls. The frequencies of DRB1*0301, DRB3*0101, DQB1*0201, and DPB1*0401 were significantly increased in patients with idiopathic PSHL compared with controls. The DQB1*0301 allele was significantly decreased in the patients. A linkage disequilibrium was probably responsible for the concomitant increase of both DRB1*0301 and DRB3*0101 alleles in patients. The increase of DQB1*0201 in patients was associated with the DRB1*0301 allele. In addition, the telomeric DPB 1*0401 allele may act as an independent risk factor. The DQB1*0301 allele may have a protective role in the pathogenesis of idiopathic PSHL. These results suggest that the specific HLA class II gene products may confer susceptibility or resistance to idiopathic PSHL.

Keywords

autoimmune inner ear disease hearing loss HLA class II polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism reverse dot blot sequence-specific oligonucleotide

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