From the first identified non-syndromic hearing loss gene in 1995, to those discovered in
present day, the field of human genetics has witnessed an unparalleled revolution that …

Tremendous progress has been made in our understanding of the molecular basis of
hearing and hearing loss. Through recent advances, we have begun to understand the …

Hearing loss has a genetic etiology in the majority of cases and is very common. The
universal newborn hearing screening program, together with remarkable recent progress in …

The advent of the $1000 genome has the potential to revolutionize the identification of
genes and their mutations underlying genetic disorders. This is especially true for extremely …

Hereditary hearing loss is clinically and genetically heterogeneous. There are presently over
120 genes that have been associated with non-syndromic hearing loss and many more that …

Our understanding of hereditary hearing loss has greatly improved since the discovery of the
first human deafness gene. These discoveries have only accelerated due to the great strides …

The past decade has seen extremely rapid progress in the field of hereditary hearing loss.
To date, 80 loci for nonsyndromic hearing loss have been mapped to the human genome …

Hereditary hearing loss is both clinically and genetically very heterogeneous. Despite the
large number of genes that have been associated with the condition, many cases remain …

Hearing loss is the most common sensory deficit in humans. Advances in molecular biology
and genetics have contributed substantially in the past decade to further our understanding …

Although there are nearly 100 different causative genes identified for nonsyndromic hearing
loss (NSHL), Sanger sequencing‐based DNA diagnostics usually only analyses three …