Early onset adult deafness in the Rhodesian Ridgeback dog is associated with an in-frame deletion in the EPS8L2 gene

• Takeshi Kawakami ,

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

  * E-mail: adam@embarkvet.com (ARB); tkawakami@embarkvet.com (TK)

  Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9204-6852

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• Vandana Raghavan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1830-2299

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• Alison L. Ruhe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, ProjectDog, Davis, CA, United States of America

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• Meghan K. Jensen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ausra Milano,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Thomas C. Nelson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Adam R. Boyko

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: adam@embarkvet.com (ARB); tkawakami@embarkvet.com (TK)

  Affiliations Embark Veterinary, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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