Table 1.

Informative websites for SHL

WHO	http://www.who.int/topics/deafness/en/
ASHA	http://www.asha.org/public/hearing/Degree-of-Hearing-Loss/)
NIDCD	http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/Pages/quick.aspx
Hereditary Hearing Loss Homepage	http://hereditaryhearingloss.org/
Deafness Variation Database	http://deafnessvariationdatabase.org/
Leiden Open Variation Database	http://grenada.lumc.nl/LOVD2/WS/
Genetics Home Reference	http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim/
UCSC Genome Browser	https://genome.ucsc.edu/
Genome Reference Consortium	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/genome/assembly/grc/
GATK	https://www.broadinstitute.org/gatk/
GenVec	http://www.genvec.com/product-pipeline/cgf-166-hearing-loss