Telephone: (301) 496-7882

E-mail: friedman@nidcd.nih.gov

Office: Building 5, Room 2A15

Mailing Address:
National Institute of Deafness and other Communication Disorder (NIDCD) 

5 Research Court, MSC 3320 

Rockville, Maryland 20850-3320 

• Human genetics of deafness and deaf-blind disorders
• Cell biology of auditory sensory cells 
• Gene structure and function

The goal of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics is to identify, clone and characterize the genes that contribute to communication disorders. The Laboratory of Molecular Genetics has three sections, the Section on Human Genetics, the Section on Gene Structure and Function, and the Section on Murine Genetics. The goal of Section on Human Genetics is to map, identify, and study the functions of genes responsible for hereditary hearing impairment and deaf-blindness (Usher syndrome) in humans. Some of the genes that we have identified are responsible for these disorders in human include unconventional myosin XVA, cadherin 23, protocadherin 15, and claudin 14.