Lack of collagen α6(IV) chain in mice does not cause severe-to-profound hearing loss or cochlear malformation, a distinct phenotype from nonsyndromic hearing loss with COL4A6 missense mutation

• Shaoying Tang,

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

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Tomoko Yonezawa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tomoy@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3380-8298

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• Yukihide Maeda,

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

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Mitsuaki Ono,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Takahiro Maeba,

  Roles Investigation, Validation

  Current address: Department of Plastic Surgery, Japanese Red Cross Fukuoka Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Toru Miyoshi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Ryusuke Momota,

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

  Affiliation Department of Human Morphology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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• Yasuko Tomono,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Molecular and Cell Biology, Shigei Medical Research Institute, Okayama, Japan

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• Toshitaka Oohashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

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