When we performed the association study between the variants identified in our patients and the reference group, we identified that the in-frame p.(Ser159del) microdeletion of SALL1 appears to be a risk factor for microtia, as evidenced by the statistically significant difference in the AF between our patients and the reference group and the presence of this variant in only our microtia/OAVS cases. Here, SALL1 is linked to atrial fibrillation.