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↵* These authors contributed equally to this work
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We thank the patients and their relatives for their kind cooperation in this study, and FIAPAS for their enthusiastic support of this research. FJdC and MV were recipients of fellowships from the Comunidad de Madrid. MRB and AA were recipients of fellowships from Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias. LA was a recipient of a fellowship from the Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles. This work was supported by grants from the European Community (QLG2-CT-1999-00988), CAICYT of Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (SAF2002-03966, to FM), Spanish Research Network on the Genetic and Molecular Bases of Hearing Disorders (FIS G03/203, to FM), Programa Ramón y Cajal (to IdC), Spanish Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (FIS PI020807, to IdC), the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology (to KBA), and the National Institutes of Health (RO1-DC02842, to RJHS).
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Competing interests: none declared