Though Bardet-Biedl syndrome-15 is often linked to improper development of sensory hair cells, leading to eventual hearing loss, our GWAS eliminated participants that had previously reported hearing loss, the use of cochlear implants, or hearing aids, indicating that our results were not due to an oversaturation of BBS-15 patients within our tinnitus group. This evidence concerns the gene BBS2 and Bardet-Biedl syndrome 15.