MITF and Werner syndrome: Variants in PAX3 and MITF have been associated with auditory–pigmentary phenotypes in animal species (www.informatics.jax.org/allele/MGI:1856173, accessed on 11 April 2024; OMIA:001688-9796; [8,9,25,26,27]) and in auditory–pigmentary Waardenburg syndromes (WS) in humans (OMIM: PS193500; [10]).