About the Authors

Matthew R. Avenarius

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Current address: Institute for Genomic Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology/Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Jae-Yun Jung

Roles Methodology

Current address: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Dankook University, Cheonan, South Korea

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology/Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Charles Askew

Roles Investigation

Current address: Gene Therapy Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliations Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sherri M. Jones

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Kristina L. Hunker

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology/Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Hela Azaiez

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Atteeq U. Rehman

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Section on Human Genetics, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Margit Schraders

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Hearing & Genes Division, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Hossein Najmabadi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Genetics Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Hannie Kremer

Roles Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Hearing & Genes Division, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Richard J. H. Smith

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Molecular Otolaryngology and Renal Research Laboratories, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Gwenaëlle S. G. Géléoc

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

David F. Dolan

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology/Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Yehoash Raphael

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology/Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

David C. Kohrman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

dkohrman@umich.edu

Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology/Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.