Estrogen-related receptor gamma and hearing function: evidence of a role in humans and mice.

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"This work was funded under the following: the Haigh Fellowship in age related deafness, Deafness Research UK (444:UEI:SD); the London ARHL cohort collection was initiated by funding from Research into Ageing (Ref. 223, SD), Teresa Rosenbaum Golden Charitable Trust, Telethon Foundation (GGP09037); Italian Ministry of Health (RC16/06) (to P.G.). We acknowledge use of phenotype and genotype data from the British 1958 Birth Cohort DNA collection, funded by the Medical Research Council grant G0000934 and the Wellcome Trust grant 068545/Z/02. (http://www.b58cgene.sgul.ac.uk/). Genotyping for the B58C-WTCCC subset was funded by the Wellcome Trust grant 076113/B/04/Z. The B58C-T1DGC genotyping used resources provided by the Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium, a collaborative clinical study sponsored by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) and supported by U01 DK062418. B58C-T1DGC GWAS data were deposited by the Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research (CIMR), University of Cambridge, which is funded by Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, the Wellcome Trust, and the National Institute for Health Research Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre; the CIMR is in receipt of a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award (079895). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."