What You Can Do
to Assist Research
 
 

Our research group has been involved in analyzing genetic deafness for more than 30 years.  With support from the  National Institutes of Health , we are participating in a worldwide effort to map and characterize the many different genes that can cause deafness.

Several types of families are particularly useful.  These include:
 

 1.  Deaf children or adults whose parents were related before marriage -- for example,
      children whose parents are cousins.  Individuals of this type are of great value for
      research purposes even if the parents are distant cousins.

 2.  Families in which there are two or more deaf siblings.

 3.  Extended families in which there are many deaf individuals.

 4.  Deaf couples with three or more children, all of whom are deaf.

Please, write, call, TTY, or e-mail us at the following address.  Your name will be kept confidential.  When you contact us, please, provide your name and phone/TTY number and indicate when you would like us to contact you for a brief interview.

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Walter E.  Nance, MD, PhD
Arti Pandya, MD
Department of Human Genetics
Medical College of Virginia Hospitals
P.O. Box 980033
Richmond, VA 23298-0033
(804)828-9632 (V)
 

Kathleen Shaver Arnos, PhD
Department of Biology
Gallaudet University
800 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202)651-5258 (V/TTY)
kathleen.arnos@gallaudet.edu