The National Institutes of Health intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with the Allama Iqbal Medical Research Centre.

The NIH Intramural program of National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders is responsible for ascertaining families in Pakistan with hearing and speech disorders and mapping the underlying genes for these disorders.  Two human subjects protocols at the NIH have been approved for these studies: (1)Nonsyndromic hereditary hearing impairment-gene mapping" protocol number is OH93-DC-016, and (2)Genetic Studies of Stuttering, protocol 97-DC-0057.  The Laboratory of Molecular Genetics has maintained a longstanding collaboration in Pakistan to study the genetics of hearing and speech disorders.  Allama Iqbal Medical Research Centre is the only accrediting organization that is recognized by the NIH, NIDCD to perform DNA samples from all families that are enrolled in this study will be sent to the Laboratory of Communication Disorders for analysis along with a copy of the signed Informed Consent and clinical data for each participant.  Please see the Statement of Work for further information.    

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