| ARNSHL | Autosomal Recessive Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss |
| CDC14A | Cell Division Cycle 14A |
| DFNB32 | Deafness B32 |
| DSPc/PTPc | Dual-specificity phosphatase domain |
| DSPn | Dual-specificity phosphatase domain |
| GJB2 | Gap Junction Protein Beta 2 |
| HIIMS | Hearing Impairment and Infertile Male Syndrome |
| HL | Hearing Loss |
| LD | Linkage Disequilibrium |
| LOD | Logarithm of the Odds |
| NMD | Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay |
| PTC | Premature Termination Codon |
| QC | Quality Control |
| RT-qPCR | Reverse Transcription Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| RQ | Relative Quantification |
| SNP | Single Nucleotide Polymorphism |
| WT | Wild Type |