Department of Otolaryngology, Otopathology Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Address for correspondence and reprint requests to Sebahattin Cureoglu, M.D., University of Minnesota, 2001 6th St SE, Lions Research Building, Room LRB 210, Minneapolis, MN 55455; E-mail: [email protected]

Funding sources: This work was funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders of the US National Institutes of Health (grant no. 1U24DC020851-01) and the International Hearing Foundation.

Conflicts of interest: The authors disclose no conflicts of interest.