Vona, Barbara http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6719-3447
Mazaheri, Neda http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7638-5555
Lin, Sheng-Jia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7559-6529
Dunbar, Lucy A. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2129-9091
Maroofian, Reza
Azaiez, Hela http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2863-6970
Booth, Kevin T. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-3652
Vitry, Sandrine http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4693-7694
Rad, Aboulfazl http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8627-8828
Rüschendorf, Franz http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5640-810X
Varshney, Pratishtha http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2619-7775
Fowler, Ben
Beetz, Christian http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7061-2895
Alagramam, Kumar N.
Murphy, David http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3771-3800
Shariati, Gholamreza
Sedaghat, Alireza
Houlden, Henry http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2866-7777
Petree, Cassidy http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9379-2400
VijayKumar, Shruthi http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6679-1261
Smith, Richard J. H. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1201-6731
Haaf, Thomas http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0737-0763
El-Amraoui, Aziz http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2692-4984
Bowl, Michael R. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7971-445X
Varshney, Gaurav K. http://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, 1774724)
ANR light4deaf (ANR-15-RHUS-0001)
HearInNoise (ANR-17-CE16-0017)
National Institutes of Health (GM103636 (Project 3), GM007748)
Presbyterian Health Foundation
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC002842, 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.