Profound, prelingual nonsyndromic deafness maps to chromosome 10q21 and is caused by a novel missense mutation in the Usher syndrome type IF gene PCDH15

Correction to: European Journal of Human Genetics (2009) 17, 554–564; doi:10.1038/ejhg.2008.231; published online 24 December 2008

Since the publication of the above paper, the authors have identified the following errors in the paper:

1. Co-author XC Li should be replaced with Xiaoyan Cindy Li.

2. Co-author Larry Shotland should be replaced with Lawrence I Shotland, and his affiliation changed to the Hearing Section, NIDCD, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

They also wish to state that ‘institutional review board approval (OH95-DC-N-050) was obtained from the National Institutes of Health, USA'. The project was also funded by Genome Canada (AMGGI).

The authors would like to apologise for the above mistakes.