Hearing Phenotypes of Patients with Hearing Loss Homozygous for the GJB2 c.235delc Mutation

Table 3

HL severity in patients with asymmetric and symmetric interaural HL.

HL severity		Worse ear					Cases
		Mild	Moderate	Moderate to severe	Severe	Profound
Better ear	Mild	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (0)	0 (1)	0 (0)	0 (1)
	Moderate		4 (1)	4 (3)	0 (3)	0 (0)	8 (7)
	Moderate to severe			4 (7)	1 (9)	0 (7)	5 (23)
	Severe				4 (11)	2 (24)	6 (35)
	Profound					69 (90)	69 (90)

(1) The value outside/inside each pair of parentheses represents the number of patients with symmetric/asymmetric interaural HL. (2) Italics indicate patients with the same HL severity in both ears.