The two most common vestibular disorders are motion sickness and vestibular migraine,
affecting 30 and 1–2% of the population respectively. Both are related to migraine and show …

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is genetically heterogeneous, with evidence for hundreds of
susceptibility loci. Previous microarray and exome-sequencing studies have examined …

Hair cells of the inner ear are essential for hearing and balance. As a consequence,
pathogenic variants in genes specifically expressed in hair cells often cause hereditary …

Although deafness can be acquired throughout an animal's life from a variety of causes,
hereditary deafness, especially congenital hereditary deafness, is a significant problem in …

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Hearing impairment (HI) affects 1 in 650 newborns, which makes it the most common
congenital sensory impairment. Despite extraordinary genetic heterogeneity, mutations in …

Inner hair cells (IHCs) and outer hair cells (OHCs) are the two types of sensory receptor cells
that are critical for hearing in the mammalian cochlea. IHCs and OHCs have different …

Background Countries with culturally accepted consanguinity provide a unique resource for
the study of rare recessively inherited genetic diseases. Although hereditary hearing loss …

Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI), one of the most common sensory disorders, can be
mitigated, but not cured or eliminated. To identify genetic influences underlying ARHI, we …

The mammalian auditory sensory epithelium, the organ of Corti, is composed of hair cells
and supporting cells. Hair cells contain specializations in the apical, basolateral and …