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Auditory perceptual learning studies tend to focus on the nature of the target stimuli. However, features of the background noise can also have a significant impact on the amount of benefit that participants obtain from training. This study explores whether perceptual learning of speech in background babble noise generalizes to other, real-life environmental background noises (car and rain), and if the benefits are sustained over time.

Normal-hearing native English speakers were randomly assigned to a training (

= 12) or control group (

= 12). Both groups completed a pre- and post-test session in which they identified Bamford-Kowal-Bench (BKB) target words in babble, car, or rain noise. The training group completed speech-in-babble noise training on three consecutive days between the pre- and post-tests. A follow up session was conducted between 8 and 18 weeks after the post-test session (training group

= 9; control group

= 7).

Participants who received training had significantly higher post-tudies.

The findings show that training benefits can show some generalization from speech-in-babble noise to speech in other types of environmental noise. Both groups sustained their learning over a period of several weeks for speech-in-babble noise. As the control group received equal exposure to all three noise types, the sustained learning with babble noise, but not other noises, implies that a structural feature of babble noise was conducive to the sustained improvement. These findings emphasize the importance of considering the background noise as well as the target stimuli in auditory perceptual learning studies.Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS) is a heterogenous malformation syndrome characterized by a distinct facial appearance including downslanting palpebral fissures, malar hypoplasia, conductive hearing loss, and mandibular hypoplasia. Recently, a new causative gene, POLR1B, encoding DNA-directed RNA polymerase I subunit RPA2, was identified as a fourth type of TCS (TCS4). We describe another patient with TCS4 caused by a recurrent POLR1B variant, c.3007C>T; p.Arg1003Cys. Including our patient, all 4 patients with p.(Arg1003Cys) had atresia of the external auditory canal and microtia. All of the reported pathogenic variants in POLR1B were clustered at only 2 residues. Our patient highlights the genotype-phenotype correlation in TCS4 associated with POLR1B.Kabuki syndrome (KS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by the following 5 crucial symptoms dysmorphic facial features, growth retardation, skeletal abnormalities, intellectual disability, and dermatoglyphic malformations. Studies show that most of the KS cases are caused by mutations or large deletions in the KMT2D gene, while the other cases show mutations in KDM6A. We studied 2 patients with suspected KS in 2 unrelated families by whole-exome sequencing to identify the possible genetic cause(s) and by Sanger sequencing to validate the identified variants and check the segregation in other members of the families. Finally, the potential effects of the variants on the structure and function of respective proteins were tested using in silico predictions. Both affected members of the families showed typical manifestations of KS including intellectual disability, developmental delay, and abnormal facial characteristics. A novel heterozygous frameshift variant in the KMT2D gene, c.4981del; p.(Glu1661Serfs*61), and a novel hemizygote missense variant in the KDM6A gene, c.3301G>A; p.(Glu1101Lys), were detected in patients 1 and 2, respectively. The frameshift variant identified in the first family was de novo, while in the second family, the mother was also heterozygous for the missense variant. The frameshift variant in KMT2D is predicted to lead to a truncated protein which is functionally impaired. The Glu1101 residue of KDM6A (UTX) affected in the second patient is located in a conserved region on the surface of the Jumonji domain and predicted to be causative. Our findings provide evidence on the possible pathogenicity of these 2 variants; however, additional functional studies are necessary to confirm their impacts.Camptodactyly-arthropathy-coxa vara-pericarditis (CACP) syndrome, caused by biallelic pathogenic mutations in the PRG4 gene, is characterized by early-onset camptodactyly, noninflammatory arthropathy, coxa vara deformity, and rarely, pericardial effusion. Herein, we report 3 patients with CACP syndrome from 2 unrelated families. All patients are female, born to consanguineous parents, and had camptodactyly since the first years of their lives. Two patients had a prior diagnosis of juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Hip changes were present in 2 patients, and 2 of 3 patients had undergone surgery for camptodactyly. Routine echocardiographic evaluations were normal during the 2-year follow-up. This paper represents the third study including CACP patients from Turkey. Clinically, all 3 patients resembled juvenile idiopathic arthritis cases and received unnecessary medication. There is also an ongoing need for improving awareness of CACP and an effective treatment focusing on the lubrication of the joint space in CACP patients.Kaufman oculocerebrofacial syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder which represents a phenotype mainly involving craniofacial and neurodevelopmental manifestations due to UBE3B gene mutations. The vast majority of the affected individuals exhibit microcephaly, eye abnormalities, and typical facial gestalt including blepharophimosis, ptosis, telecanthus, upslanting palpebral fissures, dysplastic ears, and micrognathia. We encountered 2 siblings in whom severe psychomotor delay, distinctive facial features, hearing loss, and respiratory distress were observed. PMA activator Some clinical manifestations of the patients, including epibulbar dermoid, microtia, and multiple preauricular tags, were reminiscent of the oculoauriculovertebral spectrum. However, 2 affected siblings exhibited a similar clinical picture consisting of microcephaly, severe developmental and cognitive disabilities, failure to thrive, and dysmorphic features, which were not fully consistent with oculoauriculovertebral spectrum. Also, hypoplastic nails, considered as a core manifestation of Coffin-Siris syndrome, were present in our patients.