• A new locus for nonsyndromic deafness DFNB49 maps to chromosome 5q12.3-q14.1
• DFNB49 is an important cause of non-syndromic deafness in Czech Roma patients but not in the general Czech population
• ILDR1 null mice, a model of human deafness DFNB42, show structural aberrations of tricellular tight junctions and degeneration of auditory hair cells
• Molecular genetics of MARVELD2 and clinical phenotype in Pakistani and Slovak families segregating DFNB49 hearing loss
• Tricellulin is a tight-junction protein necessary for hearing