Assessment of hearing impairment in Clrn1−/− mice at P21. ABR: (A) shows that the mean ABR thresholds Clrn1−/− mice are significantly elevated compared with Clrn1+/+ mice at 8, 16 and 32 kHz. (B) shows significant delay in latency of peaks 1–4 in Clrn1−/− mice compared with Clrn1+/+ mice at 8, 16 and 32 kHz. DPOAE: Assessment of OHC functions in Clrn1−/− mice. (C and D) Represent input/output (I/O) function test: the input at F1 (x-axis) plotted against the output, represented as mean (and mean ± SD) DPOAE levels (y-axis), at two pairs of frequency: 16–13.3 and 8–6.6 kHz. For I/O test, data were averaged from five Clrn1+/+ and five Clrn1−/− mice; results were compared with noise floor average from five trials (n = 5).