STRC-associated hearing loss is a relatively common genetic cause of non-syndromic hearing loss, with an incidence of 5.4–16.1% in hearing loss populations with mixed ethnicity4,5, 6–11.2% in American hearing loss patients6,7, 6% in Italian hearing loss patients8, 1.7–2.4% in Japanese hearing loss patients9,10, 2.6% in Turkish autosomal recessive hearing loss patients11, 10% in Czech mild-to-moderate hearing loss patients12, 10.8% in Korean mild-to-moderate hearing loss patients13, and 6% in GJB2-negative Germany hearing loss patients14. The gene discussed is GJB2; the disease is hearing loss disorder.