Genetic predisposition to tinnitus in the UK Biobank population.

ABSTRACT: Tinnitus, the phantom perception of noise originating from the inner ear, has been reported by 15% of the world's population, with many patients reporting major deficits to cognition and mood. However, both objective diagnostic tools and targeted therapeutic strategies have yet to be established. To better understand the underlying genes that may preclude tinnitus, we performed a genome-wide association study of the UK Biobank's 49,960 whole exome sequencing participants to identify any loci strongly associated with tinnitus. We identified 17 suggestive single nucleotide polymorphisms (p < 1e-5) spanning 13 genes in two sex-separated cohorts reporting chronic, bothersome tinnitus (control males n = 7,315, tinnitus males n = 226, control females n = 11,732, tinnitus females n = 300). We als

SUBMITTER: Urbanek ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8437971 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature