Recent polling shows that despite their concerns for hearing loss, over half of parents plan to purchase a tech-related gift for their child this holiday season. Parents often ask their children to turn down the volume, usually to no avail, but will buy them tech gifts despite this.

A new study was recently published in The American Journal of Human Genetics which has identified 44 genes that are linked to age-related hearing loss. This gives a clearer picture of how hearing loss develops and potential treatments for it.