SLC26A4 and Hodgkins lymphoma: According to a previous study, SLC26A4 bi-allelic pathogenic variants account for approximately 11% of Chinese Han probands with severe-to-profound HL and analysis of SLC26A4 in 176 unrelated Chinese patients with ARNSHL demonstrated that 13.6% (24/176) of patients carried at least one mutant allele [15].