Clinical characteristics of a Japanese family with hearing loss accompanied by compound heterozygous mutations in LOXHD1

We report a Japanese family carrying compound heterozygotes of truncating and nontruncating mutations in LOXHD1 identified by targeted NGS analysis. The fact of lower degree of hearing impairment in our cases than previously reported and the molecular modeling of the missense mutant provide insight to the genotype-phenotype correlation of DFNB77.