About the Authors

Davide S. Risso

Affiliations Laboratory of Communication Disorders, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Centre for Genome Biology, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Julia Kozlitina

Affiliation McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Eduardo Sainz

Affiliation Laboratory of Communication Disorders, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joanne Gutierrez

Affiliation Laboratory of Communication Disorders, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Stephen Wooding

Affiliation Health Sciences Research Institute, University of California Merced, Merced, United States of America

Betelihem Getachew

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Donata Luiselli

Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Centre for Genome Biology, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Carla J. Berg

Affiliation Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, Emory University Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Dennis Drayna

drayna@nidcd.nih.gov

Affiliation Laboratory of Communication Disorders, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DD SW JK. Data curation: DR DD JK. Formal analysis: DR JK. Funding acquisition: DD JK CB. Investigation: DR JK ES JG BG. Methodology: DR JK DD. Project administration: ES JG DD DL. Resources: CB BG DD. Software: DR JK. Supervision: DD DL. Validation: CB JK DR. Visualization: DR JK. Writing – original draft: DR JK. Writing – review & editing: DD DR JK CB SW DL.