Deaf intermarriage has limited effect on the prevalence of recessive deafness and no effect on underlying allelic frequency

• Derek C. Braun ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: derek.braun@gallaudet.edu

  Affiliation Department of Science, Technology, and Mathematics, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4922-5588

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• Samir Jain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samir Jain, Eric Epstein

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Science, Technology, and Mathematics, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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• Eric Epstein ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samir Jain, Eric Epstein

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Science, Technology, and Mathematics, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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• Brian H. Greenwald ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of History, Philosophy, Religion, and Sociology, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7889-6423

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• Brienna Herold ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Science, Technology, and Mathematics, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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• Margaret Gray

  Roles Methodology, Software

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Science, Technology, and Mathematics, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C., United States of America

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