Prevalence and nature of connexin 26 mutations in children with non-syndromic deafness

Correction

Re: “Prevalence and nature of connexin 26 mutations in children with non-syndromic deafness”, by Hans-Henrik M Dahl, Kerryn Saunders, Therese M Kelly, Amelia H Osborn, Stephen Wilcox, Barbara Cone-Wesson, Julia L Wunderlich, Desiree Du Sart, Maria Kamarinos, Robert J McKinlay Gardner, Shirley Dennehy, Robert Williamson, Neil Vallance, Patricia Mutton (Med J Aust 2001; 175: 191-194).

A recent audit of our use of Guthrie cards has shown that the 1000 anonymous Guthrie blood spots used to estimate the connexin 26 carrier incidence in our study were collected in a week selected at random from 1984, and not May 1986 as stated on page 193. (Also, in the Abstract [page 191], the collection year, given as 1986, should read 1984.)

This does not affect the study results or our conclusions.