MYO7A and Menkes disease: This approach has led to the discovery of a burden of rare variation in three SNHL genes in several MD families, which are OTOG (HGNC:8516), MYO7A (HGNC:7606), and TECTA (HGNC:11720) [7, 8, 10], with a recessive, digenic, and dominant inheritance pattern, respectively.