Identification of four TMC1 variations in different Chinese families with hereditary hearing loss

Background Variants in TMC1 (transmembrane channel‐like 1) can cause both autosomal dominant and recessive hearing loss in human population. Mice with Tmc1 variants have been shown to be ideal animal models for gene therapy. In this article, we report four TMC1 variants in four different Chinese families and the follow‐up auditory phenotype of a previously reported family.