Tinnitus, the perception of an auditory phantom sound in the form of ringing, buzzing,
roaring, or hissing in the absence of an external sound source, is perceived by~ 15% of the
population and 2.5% experiences a severely bothersome tinnitus. The contribution of genes
on the development of tinnitus is still under debate. The current manuscript reports a pilot
Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) into tinnitus, in a small cohort of 167 independent
tinnitus subjects, and 749 non-tinnitus controls, who were collected as part of a cross …