A new approach to estimating the prevalence of hereditary hearing loss: An analysis of the distribution of sign language users based on census data in Russia

• Georgii P. Romanov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MK Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Science Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Russia

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• Vera G. Pshennikova,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MK Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Science Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Russia

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• Sergey A. Lashin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3138-381X

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• Aisen V. Solovyev,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MK Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia, Laboratory of the Human in the Arctic, Institute for Humanitarian Research and North Indigenous Peoples Problems, Federal Research Centre “The Yakut Scientific Centre of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Yakutsk, Russia

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• Fedor M. Teryutin,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MK Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Science Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Russia

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• Aleksandra M. Cherdonova,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MK Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia

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• Tuyara V. Borisova,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MK Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia

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• Nikolay N. Sazonov,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MK Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia

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• Elza K. Khusnutdinova,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Human Molecular Genetics, Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics, Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia, Department of Genetics and Fundamental Medicine, Bashkir State University, Ufa, Russia

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• Olga L. Posukh,

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

  Affiliations Federal Research Center Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

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• Sardana A. Fedorova,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MK Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Science Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Russia

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• Nikolay A. Barashkov

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

  * E-mail: barashkov2004@mail.ru

  Affiliations Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MK Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University, Yakutsk, Russia, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Yakut Science Centre of Complex Medical Problems, Yakutsk, Russia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6984-7934

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