Vona, Barbara https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6719-3447
Mazaheri, Neda https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7638-5555
Lin, Sheng-Jia https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7559-6529
Dunbar, Lucy A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2129-9091
Maroofian, Reza
Azaiez, Hela https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2863-6970
Booth, Kevin T. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-3652
Vitry, Sandrine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4693-7694
Rad, Aboulfazl https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8627-8828
Rüschendorf, Franz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5640-810X
Varshney, Pratishtha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2619-7775
Fowler, Ben
Beetz, Christian https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7061-2895
Alagramam, Kumar N.
Murphy, David https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3771-3800
Shariati, Gholamreza
Sedaghat, Alireza
Houlden, Henry https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2866-7777
Petree, Cassidy https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9379-2400
VijayKumar, Shruthi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6679-1261
Smith, Richard J. H. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1201-6731
Haaf, Thomas https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0737-0763
El-Amraoui, Aziz https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2692-4984
Bowl, Michael R. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7971-445X
Varshney, Gaurav K. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0429-1904
Galehdari, Hamid
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medizinischen Fakultät, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (2545-1-0)
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg
Medical Research Council (MC_UP_1503/2)
Medical Research Council (1774724)
ANR light4deaf (ANR-15-RHUS-0001)
HearInNoise (ANR-17-CE16-0017)
National Institutes of Health (GM103636 (Project 3))
National Institutes of Health (GM007748)
Presbyterian Health Foundation
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC002842)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC012049)
Projekt DEAL
Article History
Received: 25 September 2020
Accepted: 31 December 2020
First Online: 26 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: CB is an employee of Centogene AG (Rostock, Germany).
: Human studies were approved by the Faculty of Medicine ethics commissions at the University of Würzburg (46/15) and Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz (#EE/97.24.3 17654). All zebrafish experiments were performed as per protocol (17-01) and approved by the Institutional Animal Care Committee of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) (IACUC). Mouse studies at the MRC Harwell Institute were licenced by the Home Office under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, UK and additionally approved by the Institutional Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body (AWERB).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants.
: Consent for publication was obtained from all participants.