title: Gene expression profile of the mouse organ of Corti at the onset of hearing.
abstract: We describe the generation of an expressed sequence tag (EST) database of the mouse organ of Corti (OC). Over 20,000 independent clones were isolated, analyzed, and grouped into 8690 unique gene clusters. A large pool of novel genes unique to the OC was identified. Sequence alignments frequently revealed alternatively spliced forms of known genes potentially relevant in the OC function. We have also electronically mapped a subset of OC mouse ESTs to several syntenic regions associated with human autosomal and recessive deafness, which may prove useful for the identification of new positional candidates for these human diseases. The EST dataset is available as an interactive Web-based public database at. This resource provides both a view of the profile of gene expression in the OC at the onset of hearing and a tool to identify novel genes of importance in hearing.
authors.affiliation: Section on Structural Cell Biology, NIDCD, National Institutes of Health, Building 50/Room 4249, 50 South Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Celine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pompeia
authors.forename: Belen
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hurle
authors.forename: Inna A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Belyantseva
authors.forename: Konrad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Noben-Trauth
authors.forename: Kirk
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Beisel
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Patee
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Buchoff
authors.forename: Graeme
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wistow
authors.forename: Bechara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kachar
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000235:genetics; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000235:genetics; D003638:Deafness / Q000235:genetics; D020224:Expressed Sequence Tags; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006309:Hearing / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D009925:Organ of Corti / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism