| Phenotype details |
postlingual nonsyndromic hearing loss age onset 3y–7y males, initially, moderate hearing loss, especially high frequencies, progresses with age, affects all frequencies later; age onset second-third decade female carriers, patients present with severe hearing loss after 10–15 years; vestibular function was normal, and tinnitus was not reported by the affected individuals. No signs of a conductive hearing loss-component (no air-bone gaps) in pure-tone audiometry indicates normal middle-ear function; computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and digital volume tomography show normal middle-ear cavity with regular ossicles, normal mastoid, no signs of malformation; regular inner-ear structures had fluid-filled, normally shaped cochlea allowing later treatment by cochlear implantation |