Ten genes in the potassium recycling pathway, including GJB1, GJB2, GJB3, GJB4, GJB6, KCNJ10, KCNQ1, KCNQ4, KCNE1 and SLC12A2 have known or suspected associations with both syndromic and non-syndromic hearing loss. Here, GJB2 is linked to hearing loss disorder.