This is highlighted by a large number of diseases resulting from myosin mutations, including cardiomyopathy (Geisterfer-Lowrance et al., 1990; Mohiddin et al., 2004), skeletal myopathy (Armel and Leinwand, 2009), deafness (Friedman et al., 1999; Mohiddin et al., 2004), aneurysms (Pannu et al., 2007), and enteropathy (Golachowska et al., 2012). Here, MYH14 is linked to deafness.