Foo, Chuan Zhi
Duggan, Anne
Bartom, Elizabeth T.
Tao, Litao
García-Añoveros, Jaime https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6561-9048
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (R01 DC015903, R01 DC019834)
Article History
Received: 24 March 2025
Accepted: 10 August 2025
First Online: 5 September 2025
Declarations
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: Mouse studies were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of Northwestern University (PHS Assurance Number D16-00182 (A3283-01), AAALAC Accreditation Number 000602, and USDA Research Registration Number 33-R-0129).
: J.G.-A. is an associate editor of JARO. The other authors declare no competing interests.The equations for the hypergeometric test in the “ ” sub-section of “Materials and Methods” were generated in LaTeX format using the artificial intelligence (AI) model Qwen3 [] by Alibaba on 3rd June 2025. The authors manually inspected and verified the equations to ensure that they were accurate before the submission of the manuscript.