Clinical Significance
Mutations in the SLC26A5 gene have been associated with non-syndromic hearing loss.
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“Of what significance the light of day, if it is not the reflection of an inward dawn?—to what purpose is the veil of night withdrawn, if the morning reveals nothing to the soul? It is merely garish and glaring.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)