SLC12A2 and hearing loss disorder: In the past two years alone, variants within novel hearing loss genes including SLC9A3R1, ANLN, FOXF2, TOP2B, PLS1, PISD, CLRN2, AP1B1, SCD5, GGPS1, SLC12A2, THOC1 and GREB1L were identified in patients of various ethnicities [5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22].