At least 1-5 children per 1000 suffer from congenital hearing loss, and 50% of these cases can be attributed to genetic causes. It has been estimated that 1% of pre-lingual hearing loss is due to mutations in mitochondrial DNA. Previous literature reports audiometric data for few patients, usually less than 20 per study. The goal of this study was to characterize the hearing loss associated with mitochondrial mutations and determine whether previously characterized patterns of hearing loss in these patients (progressive, sensorineural, high frequency losses) are found in our population as well.
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