Document – GeneMap

June 19, 2023

Hearing impairment resource pack for South Africa

This resource guide has been created to provide families, who have members that are hard of hearing or Deaf, with information and contact details for various organisations, schools and other facilities that are aimed at serving the Deaf community.

June 19, 2023

Hearing impairment resource pack for Ghana

This resource guide provides hearing impaired and hard of hearing individual(s), families and the public with basic information and contact details of different organizations, schools, and other facilities that offers supporti11e and assisti11e services to the Deaf community in Ghana.

June 19, 2023

HIGENES information booklet

The reason for doing this study is to find the genes with changes that cause hearing impairment in people from Africa, and to better understand how these genes affect hearing in African populations.

June 8, 2023

Explanatory models for the cause of Fragile X Syndrome in rural Cameroon

Fragile X Syndrome (FXS), also known as the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability (ID), is a neurogenic condition that affects twice as many males as females.

June 8, 2023

Cascade Testing for Fragile X Syndrome in a Rural Setting in Cameroon (Sub-Saharan Africa)

Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common monogenic X-linked condition which causes variable degrees of Intellectual Disability (ID), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), delay in acquisition of speech and other cognitive skills; affecting one in 7143 males and one in 11,111 females [1–5]. Some individuals with FXS may present characteristics of facial appearance such as, a large forehead and prominent ears.

March 1, 2023

Hearing loss in children

What parents need to know

February 8, 2023

The African genome project

A Cameroonian professor plans to fill a gaping hole in humanity’s understanding of its own genetics