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A 1-year-old girl with profound congenital hearing loss presented to the pediatric genetics clinic because her parents wanted to know why their child was deaf. They were also contemplating another pregnancy and sought to learn about the risk of having a second child with hearing loss. The patient’s mother had northern European ancestry, whereas the father was of Ashkenazi Jewish extraction.

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Schrijver, I. (2011). Hearing Loss. In: Schrijver, I. (eds) Diagnostic Molecular Pathology in Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19677-5_5

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